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Article: Union trips up member's trip to India for surgery.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)
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- Business North Carolina
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- December 1, 2006
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This is a story about Carl Garrett's gallbladder--a tale that might have meandered in obscurity from the forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the plains of India and back if not for the griping of a Pittsburgh-based labor union. It is a tale of sickness and health, of globalization and collective bargaining. And like many Southern yarns, it is a tale of a lost cause.
Garrett fixes and maintains machines at Canton-based Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc., which is 45% owned by its workers. Saddled with rising health-care costs, the company last year began exploring ways to cut expenses. Someone saw a television report on medical tourists--U.S. citizens who travel to ...