GE Employees Plan Strike over Health-Care Costs

NPR

Published January 8, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

General Electric faces its first national strike in more than 30 years. The company's two largest unions -- representing 20,000 workers -- say they will stage a two-day strike to protest increasing health-care costs. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.

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