GM shutters three more plants due to strike
A strike at an auto parts supplier has forced General Motors Corp. to shut down three more pickup truck factories, causing the company to idle a total of 12,000 workers, GM said Friday. Plants in Flint; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Oshawa, Ontario, were to
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