[ModernCamaro.com News]

While many other western Michigan cities are moving their economies toward health care, biotech or tourism, Three Rivers -- population 7,300 -- remains a factory town. About 800 people work at the American Axle plant that employees and residents say is the heart of the community. So much so that during a recent union meeting strikers unanimously instructed their leadership to work to keep the plant open, even if that meant sacrificing some money for better buyout packages for current workers.

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