Workers, retirees rally outside gates of GE Transportation in Lawrence Park

Retirees and union members at GE Transportation vowed Wednesday to stand together during a noon rally outside the company's gates on Water Street.
More than 200 people, many of them members of Local 506 of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, and of the Retirees Association of General Electric, offered a display of unity less than two weeks before union workers at the General Electric Co. are set to begin contract negotiations.
Those negotiations are expected to focus in large part on health care, pension benefits and the possibility of establishing a two-tier pay structure that would provide lower wages to new employees....READ MORE