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GM offer to striking UAW included Detroit plant rescue, Ohio battery plant

The United Auto Workers says it will strike General Motors Co. plants nationwide starting at 11:59 p.m. Sunday after the two sides failed to reach an agreement on a new contract. The walkout of 46,000 workers is the first national strike by the UAW in 12 years.

The union says "dialog is continuing" with the automaker, but a GM spokesman says talks have been halted as the UAW prepares to mount a national strike against GM amid increasingly acrimonious atmosphere.

In a surprisingly detailed response, GM outlined its offer to the union that promises more than $7 billion in investments over the life of a new contract. The automaker said it would create more than 5,400 jobs, boost base wages, pay lump-sum bonuses, improve benefits — and, The Detroit News has learned, rescue its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant from closure and build a new battery plant near the idled Lordstown plant in Ohio.

Read more at DetroitNews.com.


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