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Local UAW members head to Detroit for details on deal

WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — General Motors and the United Automobile Workers have reached a tentative deal that could end a monthlong strike that stopped factory production and caused suppliers to lay off employees.

Picketing continued Wednesday at the GM plant in Wyoming and will continuefor at least the next few days. Local UAW leaders headed to Detroit Wednesday afternoon to learn the details of the deal.

“We just have to wait and see how this all pans out for us,”Joyce Guiles, a UAW member, said.

Guiles and her coworkers have been walking and waiting in the longest national GM strike in U.S. history.

“I think we’ve taken enough concessions. We should be able to get what we’re asking, especially for the temps,” UAW member Deanna Franklin said.

Read more at 24 hour news 8.


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