Ripples from GM strike widen as contract negotiations enter 4th week

General Motors Co and the United Auto Workers, or UAW, on Monday entered the fourth week of contract negotiations since the union began a national strike against the automaker 22 days earlier.

With seemingly no end in sight, it has become the longest national strike at a US automaker in two decades.

The impact of the strike by 46,000 GM-UAW members at 55 GM facilities around the US is beginning to be felt on a national level through layoffs and work stoppages at affiliated companies.