GE Union Contracts Set to Expire at Midnight Sunday

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Source: Erie TV News

By Lisa Adams

The current contract between General Electric and its union employees expires at midnight Sunday June 21. That has 3,200 members of UE 506 and UE 618 at the Erie plant watching and waiting for word from contract negotiating teams at the bargaining table in New York.

In what they called a protest against work outsourced to the GE Transportation plant in Fort Worth, Texas, thousands of union workers walked off the job at Erie GE on Friday. It was their second four hour work stoppage this month. Union members have also declined to work overtime since May 22.

GE Transportation President and CEO Russell Stokes issued a statement Friday indicating that the work stoppages will impact production deadlines and only force GE to send more work to Texas.

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GE Unions wait for word on contract talks

Read more: http://www.erietvnews.com/story/29370029/ge-union-contracts-set-to-expire-at-midnight-sunday

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1. Just in time for the TPP, how convenient .

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2. I knew this would happen

After they built that new non-union plant in Ft Worth Tx. Used as leverage to put downward pressure on the main Erie plant's employees. Even the new plant will be just a temporary waypoint till they totally offshore production.