GM Cuts Off Health-Care Coverage for Striking UAW Workers (1)

The carmaker confirmed to the United Auto Workers that it has cut off striking members’ health-care coverage, Terry Dittes, vice president of the union’s GM department, wrote in a letter to local leadership.

• UAW will provide medical assistance or COBRA option, if necessary, for members and eligible family, Dittes says in letter obtained by Bloomberg
• “While on strike, some benefits shift to being funded by the union’s strike fund, and in this case hourly employees are eligible for union-paid COBRA so their health care benefits can continue,” GM says in emailed statement
• Union’s legal department will review GM’s rationale for ...