Negotiations Summaries

Important Dates

• Calendar – contract related dates and events. 
   

Online Fliers

• #1: We're Overdue for Substantial Wage Increases!

• #2: Time to Sweeten GE Cola

• #3: GE's Bad Medicine

• #4: More Pension "Gold" for the Golden Years

#5: GE's "Competition" - Imagination at Work

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• UE has represented thousands of General Electric employees under a UE-GE national contract since 1938.

• We are one of only two unions holding a national agreement with GE.

• There are 13 unions representing GE members which have joined together in the Coordinated Bargaining Committee (CBC) of GE unions.

• Visit the CBC Website — www.geworkersunited.org

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News, Issues & Information

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2003 — By a substantial margin, UE members in the GE chain have ratified the proposed 2003-2007 National Contract between UE and GE.

The voting was conducted over the past few days by UE-GE local unions across the country. The tentative agreement had been recommended for acceptance by the UE-GE Conference Board at its meeting held on June 17th in New York City.

The new contract is effective retroactive to June 16th and will run until June 17th, 2007.

More: GE Contract Ratified (UE News)
    

PREVIOUSLY POSTED:
Summary of 2003-2007
UE-GE Tentative Agreement

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2003 — A UE-prepared summary of the 2003-2007 UE-GE Tentative Agreement is now available online.

UE members in UE-GE local unions will be voting on the proposal over the next week, with voting to conclude by no later than Wednesday, June 25th. We will post an announcement about the results when they become available.
    

PREVIOUSLY POSTED:
UE-GE Conference Board
Unanimously Recommends
Contract Ratification

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2003 — Meeting in New York this morning, the UE-GE Conference Board has voted unanimously to recommend acceptance to UE locals of the tentative agreement reached Sunday with the General Electric Company (GE) for a new National Contract. The UE-GE Conference Board is made up of representatives from UE-GE locals nationwide.

This morning's action follows a unanimous decision by the UE Negotiating Committee to recommend acceptance to the Conference Board.

The proposed contract now goes to UE locals, which will be taking ratification votes.
    

PREVIOUSLY POSTED:
Tentative Agreement Reached

SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 2003 — The UE-GE Negotiating Committee has reached a tentative agreement with the General Electric Company (GE) for a new four-year National Contract.

The UE-GE Conference Board will meet Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. in New York City. The Conference Board will consider the proposed contract and make a recommendation to accept or reject to the UE-GE membership.

Some GE Numbers
You Should Know

Eye-opening information on the eve of national contract negotiations. GE has been moaning about the "recession" but as the facts illustrate, there's no recession in GE profits, CEO pay or worker productivity. Here are the details ...

GE Retirees
Demonstrate Their RAGE

The Retirees Association of General Electric (RAGE), rallies in Erie, promising to keep pressing hard for a substantial pension increase for all GE retirees. Here's the story ...

UE-GE Local Leaders
Adopt Contract Proposals

Representatives of UE locals in the General Electric chain adopted a comprehensive set of contract proposals at a meeting of the UE-GE Conference Board held at the union's national headquarters in Pittsburgh (UE News Update) ...

Some GE Bargaining
History You Should Know

Here's a brief history of union bargaining with General Electric that answers many commonly-asked questions about how bargaining takes place and the role of the Coordinated Bargaining Committee (CBC) of GE unions ...

UE Calls on GE to Increase
Retirees' Pensions

General Electric retirees deserve "an immediate and substantial pension increase," says UE. In a March 4 letter, UE President John H. Hovis reminds company officials that "It has now been nearly three years since General Electric has seen fit to adjust the pensions of its retirees" ...

GE Blurs Pension Issues

We know it's nearly time for national bargaining when company publications start to feature various GE benefits specialists interviewing each other, always reaching one conclusion: GE's benefits are "competitive and among the best around." We reach a different conclusion — here's why ...

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National Strike Targets
GE's Medical Cost-Shifting

UE members in locals from New England to California successfully completed the first national strike against General Electric in 33 years in January. Responding to the company’s medical cost-shifting in its Health Care Preferred (HCP) managed care insurance plan, UE members stopped work at 16 different bargaining units across the country. UE members were joined by members of the IUE/CWA, the only other union with a national contract in the GE chain. Altogether nearly 20,000 GE workers were on strike. Details (in UE News) ...

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UE-GE Locals Prepare ffor National Strike Action (12/16/02)
Striking Back Against GE's Greed (online flier)