Manufacturing

For GM, deal may be labor-cost setback

GM UAW strike
GM’s more than 46,000 U.S. hourly workers staged a 40-day-long strike this fall — the longest against the company in almost half a century — but managed to coax the company into keeping open only one of the four American factories it made plans to shutter a year ago.
October 27, 2019 04:00 AM

DETROIT — General Motors' new contract with the UAW, which members ratified last week after a 40-day strike, gives the automaker what it wanted: the closure of three underutilized plants, a key piece of its restructuring plan.

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