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Union Must Decide How to Protect United Technologies Jobs, Retain Benefits.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003
By Barbara Nagy, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 5--David Landin has been a machinist at Pratt & Whitney for 12 years and hopes to stay another 16 -- until he's 62. He's not at all sure he'll make it. The problem? Managers at the United Technologies Corp. division are sending work overseas, cutting costs and outsourcing "non-core" operations to save money as global competition ratchets up.
So for Landin and 5,200 other UTC machinists in Connecticut, job security -- followed closely by retirement benefits and health care costs -- will be the top issues in the next year as the Machinists union negotiates a series of new labor contracts with Pratt, UTC Fuel Cells and Hamilton Sundstrand. The first talks open...
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