AUTOS

Threat of New Strike Looms at Key GM Parts Plant: A United Auto Workers local at General Motor’s Inland Fisher Guide Division in Anderson, Ind., requested that top union leaders issue the necessary five-day notice that 3,400 hourly employees may strike over local grievances and GM’s transfer of some work to outside companies. UAW spokesmen at Local 663 in Anderson and at the union’s international headquarters in Detroit said they did not know when the letter would be issued, and it is possible union leaders will refuse to authorize a strike. However, a union source who requested anonymity said the notice would go out as early as 10 a.m. Wednesday if insufficient progress had been made at resolving the issues in Anderson. A walkout at the Anderson plant could cripple virtually all of General Motors’ North American operations.