1.   General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract settlement early Saturday at two Michigan transmission plants, avoiding a potentially costly strike.

2.   Renault closed two assembly plants in France, at Douai and Sandouville, and an engine and transmission plant in Cleon.

3.   The automaker and the UAW averted a potentially costly walkout Friday at two Michigan transmission plants.

4.   The Canadian transmission plant also is the sole source of four-speed transmissions for the Pontiac Sunfire and Oldsmobile Achieva cars.

5.   The company told workers at the Ypsilanti transmission plant not to come to work tomorrow because the Canadian plants the facility supplies are closed.

6.   The newest strike, at a transmission plant in Pontiac, Mich., is potentially serious.

7.   The workers will transfer from the current Kokomo casting and transmission plant.

8.   They are a lighting plant in Anderson, Indiana, and a transmission plant in Warren, Michigan.

9.   Isuzu strengthened its presence in the country last year by constructing a one-billion-peso transmission plant south of Manila.