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UAW workers strike GM plants as contract deadline passes

DETROIT, Sept 24 (Reuters) - United Auto Workers union- represented workers at plants in Michigan and Ohio began walking off the job and organizing pickets as a strike against General Motors Corp began on Monday.

"We're on strike. It's too late to call us back now," UAW Local President Chris "Tiny" Sherwood told Reuters as a union-imposed strike deadline passed at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT).