Just days after workers at the GM Silao plant agreed to a wage increase agreement, the GM San Luis Potosí plant agreed to a wage increase for its workers.
The government of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí announced that executives from the GM San Luis Potosí plant and representatives of the Carlos Leone National Union of Automotive Industries reached an agreement on wage increases for the plant’s workforce, with local authorities acting as mediators. The agreement sets a 10 percent increase for the 2026 calendar year and averts a strike called by the union.
“The agreement (between GM’s San Luis Potosí plant and workers) stipulates a 10 percent wage increase for fiscal year 2026,” said Secretary General of the San Luis Potosí State Government, J. Guadalupe Torres. “The state government is keeping a close eye on the progress of the negotiations and is acting as an intermediary between the automakers and union representatives, who hold the collective bargaining agreement,” he added.
Specifically, the wage increase at GM’s San Luis Potosí plant, agreed to with Carlos Leone’s union, will cover more than 7,200 workers in the automaker’s industrial complex in Mexico, ensuring operational continuity and improved working conditions for employees. It is worth noting that neither the company, the union, nor the state government disclosed details regarding the basic hourly wage set at the San Luis Potosí complex.
The union representing workers at GM’s San Luis Potosí plant announced an immediate total pay increase of 11 percent for all employees, retroactive to April 1st. They also indicated that this adjustment was in addition to previous increases, which represented a cumulative direct salary increase of 17 percent over the past ten months, plus a six percent increase in benefits previously agreed to with the company.
The wage increase agreement at GM’s San Luis Potosí plant for the 2026 fiscal year ends a lengthy negotiation process between the automaker and the union that lasted several weeks. This also ensures continued production of the gas-powered Chevy Equinox and GMC Terrain compact crossovers, which are currently produced exclusively at this Mexican facility.
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