Nearly 50,000 GM workers are on strike. Here's what they want. Follow live updates:
5,400 jobs and $7 billion in investment at its US plantsAn improved profit sharing formula
GM said it also offered"solutions" for the two assembly plants that are poised to be closed: one in Lordstown, Ohio, where work stopped earlier this year, and the Hamtramck plant in Detroit, which is scheduled to shut in early 2020.The United Auto Workers union has vowed to get GM's agreement to keep all or at least some of those plants operating.
A person familiar with GM's offer said it included a promise to build a new electric truck at Detroit Hamtramck, and to build new batteries for electric vehicles in Lordstown. That work wouldn't start immediately, so the plants would likely remain dark for some time.
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