Article: Labor Conflict over Medical Costs Widens at General Electric, Other Companies.

By Kenneth Aaron, Times Union, Albany, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 20--SCHENECTADY, N.Y.--Bob Bezio and his colleagues had the rhetoric down cold.

As Bezio and two others took a break from the pickets in front of General Electric Co.'s Power Systems plant last week, where they had been marching to protest the company's increase of some health care copayments, they offered a lecture in the value of solidarity, GE's greed and other union saws.

But then, as things quieted a bit, Bezio gave his own reasons for trudging in circles for hours in weather so cold even goose bumps would have laid low if they could.

His ...

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