![]() On Sunday, about 200 plant-level leaders voted unanimously to strike against GM if no deal could be reached by Sunday night. GM was picked because it’s the most profitable of the three, and because its plans to close four U.S. The union has picked GM as its target company this year, and any deal it negotiates will be used as a template for the others. The union’s contract with GM expired Saturday night, but pacts with the company’s crosstown rivals, Ford and Fiat Chrysler, were extended indefinitely. READ MORE: Democrats debated in Detroit, but GM took little heat for over 14,000 job cuts Talks were scheduled to resume at 10 a.m. China tips into deflation as Beijing struggles to revive demand.Niger coup leaders dig in with cabinet appointments, rejects talks. ![]() Videos show huge brawl after Black worker mobbed by white boaters in Alabama.Italian man crushed to death by thousands of cheese wheels.WATCH: Oshawa GM plant to remain open, but smaller (May, 2019) The union, he said Saturday, does not take a strike lightly. UAW Vice President Terry Dittes, the union’s top GM negotiator, said a strike is the union’s last resort but is needed because both sides are far apart in negotiating a new four-year contract. “If we don’t fight now, when are we going to fight?” he asked. Green, a former local union president, said he agrees with the strike over wages, plant closures and other issues. Night shift workers at an aluminum castings factory in Bedford, Indiana, that makes transmission casings and other parts shut off their machines and headed for the exits, said Dave Green, a worker who transferred from the now-shuttered GM small-car factory in Lordstown, Ohio. READ MORE: (From May 2019) Unifor, GM announce $170M investment in Oshawa plant that will bring 300 jobs ![]() Striking GM employees were joined on the picket lines by workers from Ford and Fiat Chrysler, who are working under contract extensions.
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