Article: Utility Workers union links major insurance companies to Con Edison hardline negotiation tactics. (Utility Workers of America, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., New York Life Insurance Co., Consolidated Edison Co.)

UTILITY WORKERS UNION LINKS MAJOR INSURANCE COMPANIES

TO CON EDISON HARDLINE NEGOTIATION TACTICS

NEW YORK, June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In a dramatic display of union solidarity, members of the Utility Workers of America Local 1-2, their families, friends and supporters, today will stage a mile-long human billboard telling Consolidated Edison Co. of New York and two of its financial allies -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and New York Life Insurance Company -- that the union will fight for a fair contract.

Local 1-2, representing 14,000 Con Edison workers, has been engaged in negotiations for a new contract for more than two ...

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