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Article: GE Employees Plan Strike Over Health Care
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- January 7, 2003
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Dateline: FAIRFIELD, Conn.
Thousands of General Electric Co. workers will conduct a two-day national
strike next week to protest an increase in health care copayments,
GE and union officials said Tuesday.
Union officials say as many as 20,000 employees _ at plants that build
appliances, power turbines and jet engines _ will strike Jan. 14 and
15. It would be the first national strike at GE since 1969.
GE said it received strike notification from The International Union
of Electronic Workers/Communications Workers of America, which represents
about 13,900 employees, or 5 percent of GE's work force.
The United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, which ...