Workers at General Motors plant in Carabobo state, central north Venezuela, rejected a proposal to lift a strike made by Vice Minister of Labor Abraham Mussa as a mechanism to advance in the discussion of the collective bargaining agreement.

Adán Tortolero, the secretary general of trade union Socialistas Vencedores (Socialist Winners) said that in a meeting of workers, the members of the union agreed to keep the protest until the collective bargaining agreement is signed by the parties.

After the refusal of the workers, the Mussa is attending a new union meeting Wednesday in the assembly plant, located in Valencia, to try to calm down the striking workers and convince them that the strike is not the best option to solve the conflict.