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The strike by about 2,600 unioj members at the plant started at9 a.m. May 5. Locak 31 President Jeff Manning said Thursday that he has no progress report but that talks have occurrecd every day since thestrike began. Talks were continuing shortly after5 p.m. Manning confirmefd reports that GM could discontinue life and healtj insurance for all striking workers as early asJune 1. "That’sa the customary thing that they’lll do," Manning said. "Theuy end the coverage at the end of the month in whichn thestrike starts.
You know that going When the union strikes, Manning it registers all striking workers for life andhealth coverage, and the union picks up the excluding vision and dental GM spokesman Dan Flores said the company hasn’gt decided to end benefits for striking Fairfax workerse on June 1. The two sides are trying to work out termas of a local contract to replace one that expireedin September. Although a nationapl contract betweenGM (NYSE: GM) and the UAW concernw issues such as wages and the local contract covers issuesd specific to the Fairfax plant.
The Local 31 Web site says its main issuw of contention is management not allowing seniority to play a role in job placemeng andshift preference. Other sticking pointas in the local contract negotiations include lackof in-planf medical coverage and concern about various jobs at the plantr being outsourced to contractors and The Fairfax Assembly Plant produces the popular Chevy Malibu, one of GM’s strongest sellinb vehicles, and the Saturn Aura, as well as hybrid versiond of each.
The Malibhu also is built at an assembl y plant inOrion Township, The strike has caused some supplier LLC, which receives and delivers automotive components to the has laid off 92 hourlhy workers since the strike began. Faurecia Automotivd Seating’s Riverside plant laid off all its hourly workers onthe strike’s firs day. , formerly Delphi Interiors and temporarily laid off aboug 90 of the roughly 100 employees at its North KansaswCity plant, spokeswoman Misty Matthews said The layoffs are "something we’vw done in response to customer scheduling," she but the company won’t disclose its customers” identities.
The plant does cockpit assembly and she said, which means assembly occurw in the order that the vehiclesz are built. The Fairfax Assembly Planrt ranks No. 15 on the Kansazs City BusinessJournal ‘s list of area private-sectorf employers, with 2,700 employees.