As an update to our blog last Friday morning, General Motors Helps End American Axle Strike With Buyouts, UAW President, Ron Gettelfinger, announced Saturday that he was close to agreeing on a final deal with the American Axle strike, when that new proposal also included the shut down of three manufacturing plants. "I don't know where we're at because the company changes their position every time we turn around" Gettelfinger said in an interview over the weekend. "We have consistently offered proposals significantly higher than the agreement...And they have been consistently turned down by the UAW". As reported by Detroit Free Press.