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\n GM workers went out on strike September 16, and union negotiators say talks have taken “a turn for the worse”
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Negotiations to resolve a three-week-old strike at General Motors for better pay, benefits and job security have taken “a turn for the worse,” a top negotiator with the United Autoworkers Union said Sunday.<\/p>\n

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“After making some progress on important issues a couple days ago, the company has shown an unwillingness to fairly compensate the great workforce of the UAW,” union vice president Terry Dittes said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“These negotiations have taken a turn for the worse,” he said. <\/p>\n

On Saturday evening, the union submitted an “extensive proposal package” that “was an effort to move this set of negotiations to the next step,” Dittes said in a letter to Scott Sandefur, vice president of labor relations at GM.<\/p>\n

“During your response” on Sunday, “you didn’t even have a professional courtesy to explain why you could not accept or why you rejected our package proposal for each item we addressed,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

“We expect the company to respond and discuss the package proposal we presented yesterday. The law and basic decency require no less,” Dittes added.<\/p>\n

Nearly 50,000 GM workers walked off the job in mid-September, launching the biggest labor dispute to hit the automaker in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the company let it be known that it would extend health insurance coverage for its workers for the duration of the strike.<\/p>\n

That was seen as a sign that the sides might reach an agreement as early as the weekend, despite obstacles over pay and job security for new hires.<\/p>\n

But Dittes said that management’s response to the Saturday proposals offered little change from those that the union had previously rejected.<\/p>\n

The strike has shut down GM production in the United States, impacting its operations in Canada and Mexico where thousands of workers have been temporarily laid off.<\/p>\n

GM produces the Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac and GMC brands.<\/p>\n

Besides better pay and benefits, the union wants GM to reactivate four factories shut down in November 2018.<\/p>\n

For its part, GM says it has proposed more than $7 billion in new investments in US facilities, 5,400 new jobs and higher salaries.<\/p>\n

Experts say the strike could cost the company as much as $100 million each day.<\/p>\n

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