Workers At NE Ohio GM Plant Set To Strike

[OhioChick]

POSTED: 10:18 am EDT May 13, 2008

DETROIT -- A General Motors Corp. spokesman said a union local in Ohio has threatened to go on strike this week.

GM spokesman Dan Flores said Tuesday that United Auto Workers Local 549 has given GM notice it will strike at 10 a.m. Thursday at a metal stamping plant in Ontario, Ohio, near Mansfield.

The local and GM have been negotiating for months over local contract issues.

A message has been left for local President Pam Drake.

The strike would be the third against GM over local contract issues.

Workers at a factory in Delta Township near Lansing that makes GM's strong-selling crossovers have been on strike since April 17. A UAW local at another plant in Kansas City, Kan., that makes the popular Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan has been on strike since May 5.

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