Navistar, union mull plan to keep Canada plant open

By Susan Kelly

CHICAGO, May 12 (Reuters) - Navistar International Corp. and Canadian union leaders have reached a conditional understanding that could avert the planned closure of the company's primary heavy truck plant, a Navistar spokesman said on Sunday.

The Chatham, Ontario, heavy-duty truck assembly plant, scheduled to close July 18, was the target of a six-week strike last year by members of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW).

Union workers returned to ...