Employers' liability

摘要

Health care is expensive in America, so those workers and their families fortunate enough to be insured by employers take their benefits very seriously. Earlier this year, employees at General Electric (GE) struck, and others at Verizon protested, against proposed changes to their health care coverage. This week, however, America's car workers appear to have done an effective job of resisting change. The United Auto Workers union (UAW) reached agreement with Detroit's Big Three car firms on labour contracts that, while yielding to the employers over plant closures and job losses, largely maintained health benefits (see previous story).