GM’s Tentative Deal With UAW Paves Way for Key Strike Vote (1)

General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and the union will decide Oct. 17 whether to continue a more than month-long strike while the deal is voted on by members.

The accord reached Wednesday may bring an end to the union’s longest national walkoutagainst the carmaker in almost a half century. It includes $9 billion in investment in U.S. plants, signing bonuses exceeding the $8,000 workers got four years ago, 3% pay raises in some years of the contract and 4% lump-sum payments in the others, people familiar with ...