11.   General Motors Corp. has closed its Delta Engine plant in Lansing, Michigan, because of a parts shortage caused by a strike at two brake plants in Ohio.

12.   Leaders of the local UAW have said nothing for over a year as the company targeted the two brake plants for sale or shut down.

13.   LucasVarity operates a brake manufacturing plant in Dayton.

14.   Meanwhile, negotiators met Tuesday for the fifth straight day of serious discussions to try to end the strike against GMs Delphi Chassis brake plants here.

15.   Premus cited two Delphi brake plants.

16.   Severe financial losses also put the two Dayton GM brake plants on Wisconsin Boulevard and Needmore Road in jeopardy of being sold or closed.

17.   Some analysts think strikes are possible at key parts factories such as the Ypsilanti, Michigan, transmission or the Dayton, Ohio, brake plants.

18.   Still, the future of the brake plants remain in jeopardy.

19.   Talks on ending the strike at two Dayton, Ohio, brake plants continued today.

20.   The biggest issue for GM this quarter, however, was the walkout by United Auto Workers union members at two Dayton, Ohio, brake parts plants.