General Motors now says striking workers will get company-paid health coverage, nine days after saying coverage would be cut off.
General Motors now says striking workers will get company-paid health insurance, nine days after telling the union the coverage would be cut off.
The company said in an emailed letter to the United Auto Workers union that it will keep benefits in place because of “significant confusion” among members. The letter, dated Wednesday, says employee health and well-being are GM’s top priorities. The about-face came after workers howled and GM received withering criticism from politicians and on social media about cutting off the benefits.
“These irresponsible actions by General Motors are toying with the lives of hundreds of thousands of our UAW families,” UAW Vice President Terry Dittes wrote in a letter Thursday to Scott Sandefur, GM’s vice president of labor relations.
Sandefur wrote in his letter that GM has chosen to work with healthcare providers to keep benefits fully in place for workers “so they have no disruption to their medical care, including vision, prescription and dental coverage.”Labor talks continued Thursday, the day after Dittes wrote a letter to members saying that committees had finished their work and the talks had moved to the main table of top bargainers, a sign of progress.
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