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General Electric strike pits maintenance workers against new construction
About 140 maintenance employees walk out in an IUE Local 203 strike at the Bridgeport plant, while roughly 2500 production workers remain at work. Management argues the contract for three-building renovations was awarded to a low-bidding contractor and that mixing GE staff with contractors on the project is infeasible. GE says the union seeks to force GE maintenance workers onto the construction job, a claim the company deems illegal, and has filed two unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB while aiming to keep the plant operating.
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