AUTOS

GM, Union Avert Strike: Detroit-based General Motors Corp. and the International Union of Electrical Workers reached a tentative agreement that averts a threatened strike at two Kettering, Ohio, suspension-systems plants. IUEW Local 755 had set a strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. Thursday. The local represents about 2,700 workers at two Delphi Chassis Systems plants that make shock absorbers, struts and other parts for many GM plants. Kettering is just outside Dayton, Ohio, site of an 18-day strike last month by the United Auto Workers union at two Delphi brake plants that crippled GM’s North American vehicle production and cost the auto maker $900 million in profit. Union members will vote on the settlement Friday.