General Electric workers are anticipating difficult national negotiations with the company this spring, so national and local union leaders gathered on January 8 for an expanded meeting of the Coordinated Bargaining Committee of GE Unions (CBC). Delegates assessed the strength of the two sides, analyzed expected company attacks on benefits, and discussed tactics for mobilizing union members to fight back.

The meeting was hosted by UAW Local 643 and IAM Lodge 912, which represent workers at GEs aircraft engine plant in Evandale, just north of Cincinnati, and held in Local 643s union hall. Leaders of UE locals 332, 506 and 618 GE participated in a meeting that involved 125 leaders of some 30 local unions.

See our full report on this meeting [1] on our GE Contract 2011 [2] page.