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Article: GE UNION STRIKES OVER HEALTH CARE COST HIKE WORKER KILLED BY COP CAR IN KENTUCKY.(FRONT)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- January 14, 2003
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Byline: Mary Esch Associated Press
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- General Electric Co. workers picketed at plants around the country today as thousands joined a two-day strike protesting an increase in health care copayments. In Kentucky, a striker was killed by a police car.
Union officials said about 20,000 members of the International Union of Electronic Workers/Communications Workers of America and the United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America were participating in the strike, which began at 12:01 a.m. today.
GE spokesman Gary Sheffer said at company headquarters in Fairfield, Conn., that about 17,500 employees were involved in the strike, which he said was ...