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The number of transactions in the second quarter fell from a year ago but is expected to rise in the second half of the year, according to two companies that track deals.

Just before CEO Mary Barra told employees in a companywide broadcast to make safety an “every-minute priority,” regulators disclosed that GM is recalling nearly 3.5 million large pickups and SUVs for a brake problem that it has been dealing with internally since at least 2015.

The Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant would build an electric pickup, while Lordstown would make battery cells, according to a person familiar with the offer.

The union’s roughly 46,000 hourly members at General Motors plan to walk off the line at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday. “This is our last resort,” Terry Dittes, vice president of the UAW-GM department, told reporters following a meeting of the unit’s national council. “It represents great sacrifice and great courage on the part of our members and all of us.” A UAW spokesman said workers currently at their jobs will continue there until picket lines are formed at midnight.

Engine development expert Markus Duesmann is set to become Audi CEO after BMW dropped its opposition to his early departure, a German paper said.