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Union votes to strike at General Motors' U.S. plants
By TOM KRISHER
DETROIT (AP) — The
United Auto Work- CAR
ers union announced
Sunday that its roughly
49,000 workers at Gen-
eral Motors plants in
the U.S. would go on
strike just before mid- FACTS
night because con-
tentious talks on a new
contract had broken
down.
About 200 plant-level
union leaders voted
unanimously in favor
of a walkout during a
meeting Sunday morn-
ing in Detroit. Union
leaders said the sides
were still far apart on
several major issues
and they apparently
weren't swayed by a
GM offer to make new
products at or near
two of the four plants
it had been planning
to close, according to
someone briefed on Terry Dittes, director of the UAW GM department, announces that GM workers will go on a national strike at midnight on Sunday Sept. 15,
the matter. 2019 in the Marriott Renaissance Hotel, in Detroit, Mi.
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