
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, March 17, 1994                   TAG: 9403170156
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: DAYTON, OHIO                                LENGTH: Short

GM WORKERS TOLD TO STAY HOME

Second-shift workers at a General Motors Corp. truck plant in Indiana were told not to report to work Wednesday as supplies from two strike-bound Ohio plants dwindle.

The Indiana plant could be among the first casualties of a 3-day-old strike at two GM Delco Chassis Division brake plants in Dayton. The strike by 3,000 workers began Monday after negotiators failed to agree on a new three-year contract.

Other GM plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Janesville, Wis., also were threatened with shutdowns soon if the strike in Ohio is prolonged, local GM spokesmen said.

A shortage of brake parts from the Ohio plants is forcing the Indiana plant to stop production. Jerry King, a spokesman for the GM Truck and Bus Group plant in Fort Wayne, said second-shift workers, who begin work at midafternoon, were told not to come to work today.

``We will probably work until we run out of parts, and when that is is not exactly certain at this point,'' said King.

King said 2,100 of the plant's 2,600 workers would be affected by a production stoppage.

by CNB