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Health care at heart of impasse for Vought workers in Dallas voting to strike.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004
By Katie Fairbank, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 27--Workers at Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. voted Sunday to strike, without setting a date to walk off the job. Instead, they will keep working while the Dallas company and the union continue to negotiate a contract that expired over the weekend.
Most of the members of Local 848 of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America voted to strike, with 1,163 casting yes ballots. Only 73 members voted against a strike.
Company officials declined to discuss what is at issue in the talks, which fell apart last week.
"We're disappointed in the outcome," Vought spokeswoman Lynne Warne said.
"We thought we...
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