BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, JUNE 5, 1998) JIM MORET, CNN ANCHOR: Thirty-four hundred General Motors workers at a Flint, Michigan facility are on strike. Talks involving health, safety and workload issues broke down this morning. The facility supplies fenders, doors, hoods, and other sheet metal parts for sixteen other GM plants.</s>ED GARSTEN, CNN DETROIT BUREAU CHIEF: Well, the workers got a feeling that GM was going to close both plants, both the stamping plant and the Delphi parts plant. And they wanted to make sure that they were saving their jobs and that their jobs didn't go south to Mexico or to other plants. Well, the strike at the two plants lasted just short of two months. Well, the impact on both the workers and the company was devastating. These workers were off the job for almost two months, their strike pay amounted to only about $150 a week. For the company as a whole, it shut down basically all of General Motors North American operations and by the end of the strike, GM had lost a total of $2 billion. The outcome after all that time and all that money lost, and all the work lost, and production lost, was really: it was a draw. Neither side really got what they wanted. And at the end of it, they both walked away from the table with smiles on their faces, but privately shaking their heads saying: It really wasn't worth the struggle.
CNN 20: General Motors Strike, June 5, 1998