Oct 2 Reuters General Motors and Ford Motor on Monday said they are laying off another 500 workers at four Midwestern plants because of the impact on some of the facilities of the United Auto Workers strike in its 18th day.

Separately, the UAW confirmed it presented a new contract offer to GM on Monday. GM said it received the counterproposal but significant gaps remain. The UAW also held a new round of bargaining with Chryslerparent Stellantis.

Ford on Monday said it was furloughing a total of 330 workers at its Chicago Stamping and Lima, Ohio Engine plants, while GM layoffs included 130 at its Parma, Ohio Metal Center and 34 at its Marion, Indiana Metal Center.

The UAW on Friday struck GM39;s Lansing Delta Township assembly plant that makes the Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Traverse SUVs after previously striking at GM39;s Missouri assembly plant and 18 parts distribution centers.

GM last month said it had idled its Fairfax, Kansas, plant because of a parts shortage stemming from the strike, resulting in 2,000 indefinite layoffs. Ford said last month it temporarily laid off about 600 workers at a Michigan auto plant because of the strike. Stellantis has furloughed nearly 370 workers in Ohio and Indiana.

UAW President Shawn Fain on Friday expanded the firstever simultaneous strike against the Detroit Three to a GM Lansing, Michigan plant and a Ford Chicago assembly plant, but Stellantis was spared after lastminute concessions.

The UAW said it reached a new labor…