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Despite having successfully negotiated contracts with both their pattern-setting target General Motors (see WIT for Sep. 18, 2002) and their predicted hardest case Ford Motor Company (see WIT for Oct. 1, 2002), the Canadian Auto Workers have warned that a strike seems unavoidable at the last of the big three automakers. With DaimlerChrysler refusing to live up to job security and creation promises made in the last round of contract negotiations (see WIT for Oct. 9, 2002), and making unsatisfactory counterproposals to CAW demands for new job creation pledges similar to those made by the other two companies, union president Buzz today set a Wednesday strike date. Although the company has promised to negotiate up until the deadline, some Wall Street analysts feel that the company may be inviting a strike in order to halt production and reduce product surpluses without having to pay workers while plants are idled.