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Sikorsky's workers on strike

Stratford, USA - The protest for the increased health insurance costs

Today Sikorsky’s workers, a company that builds helicopters, of Connecticut and Florida, 3600 people at all, went on strike. The reason of the protest is the part of the new job contract that schedules the doubling of the health insurance costs payed by workers. This is the first strike for the company since 1963 and the industrial management said to be surprised and embittered because of trade union’s ref...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 136230
Rome, Italy, 02/20/2006 18:44
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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