Southfield (WWJ)  -- General Motors and a United Auto Workers local near Lansing have reached a tentative agreement that could end a nearly month long strike.  

The agreement was reached around 3 a.m. Thursday.  2,300 workers will vote to ratify the deal in the coming days.   

Workers at the factory in Delta Township near Lansing make GM's strong-selling crossovers.  They walked out on April 17. 

The settlement came just hours after General Motors canceled health care and life insurance benefits for striking workers.  Executives say it is within the company's rights to discontinue benefits for the duration of the strike.

Meantime, workers at a General Motors plant in Ohio that had threatened to strike Thursday morning have withdrawn the threat.  

GM spokesman Dan Flores said Wednesday that workers at the stamping plant near Mansfield, Ohio, won't go on strike. Union leaders at the plant are continuing to negotiate a local contract with GM.

A UAW local at another plant in Kansas City, Kan., that makes the popular Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan has been on strike since May 5.

Industry analysts have speculated that the strikes are an effort by the UAW to get GM to put pressure on American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. to settle a bitter 11-week-old strike against the Detroit-based auto parts maker.

GM accounts for 80 percent of American Axle's parts business. About 3,600 UAW workers at five American Axle plants have been on strike since Feb. 26. Negotiations are continuing.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger has said the threats are about local contract issues and have nothing to do with American Axle.