GM, BMW Halt South African Plants as Metals Strike Turns Violent
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General Motors Co. and Bayerische Motoren Werke AG halted production at their South African plants as a strike by more than 220,000 metalworkers disrupted car-component makers and turned violent.
Police arrested 26 people yesterday after several incidents of attacks, intimidation and vandalism at factories around Johannesburg. Wage talks failed after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa rejected an improved offer from the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa, the employer group.