Less than 48 hours after workers left their jobs at about 80 facilities across the country, including one in Orion Township, officials from General Motors and the United Auto Workers came to an agreement last Wednesday (Sept. 26).
The strike was the first UAW national strike against GM since 1970 and affected 73,000 hourly workers.
The most publicized portion of the agreement, reached in the wee hours of the morning, is a GM-funded, UAW-run trust that will administer retiree health care.
The GM-Orion Plant has more than 2,700 workers, over 140 of which also live in Orion Township. In the wake of a tax-break the plant received earlier this year, there has been growing speculation regarding a new product at the plant.
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