As the United Auto Workers union strike against General Motors reached the end of its fourth week, the union moved to raise the level of financial support for nearly 50,000 GM workers who walked off the job
The union has been paying $250 a week in strike benefits since for three weeks. It announced Sunday it was raising the benefit to $275 a week. And for strikers at GM and Aramark, an outside contractor providing maintenance services at GM plants whose hourly employees are also striking members of the UAW, the union lifted a cap on the money they could earn from outside jobs and still get the full benefit.
GM dealers, who are independent businesses, have continued to sell GM cars and trucks, working through a larger than normal inventory that GM produced in anticipation of a possible strike. For most auto dealers though, new car sales are the least profitable part of their business, with service and used car sales producing the greatest level of profit.GM tells workers it's time for the strike to endThe UAW started a strike against a second company in the sector at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
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