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GE Strike Enters Second Day General Electric workers continue the second day of a strike to protest an increase in health-care costs. Rates for GE employees rose almost 50 percent in the last two years -- an additional $200 per year, on average. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University.

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GE Strike Enters Second Day

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General Electric workers continue the second day of a strike to protest an increase in health-care costs. Rates for GE employees rose almost 50 percent in the last two years — an additional $200 per year, on average. NPR's Bob Edwards talks to Uwe Reinhardt of Princeton University.