Saturday, November 22, 2008

Insurance costs help fuel strike

A combination of small raises and large increases in health-insurance costs led members of UAW Local 44 to reject a proposed contract from Mueller Industries, Inc. and go on strike last week, union officials said Monday.

www.thetimesherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070605/NEWS01/706050303/-1/RSS04