IUE-CWA Petitions Bankruptcy Court to Protect Retiree Health Benefits

IUE-CWA has filed a petition on behalf of thousands of General Motors' retirees to protect their health and life insurance benefits following the company's bankruptcy filing this week.

More than 27,000 IUE-CWA retirees and 5,000 retirees from other unions will be left with out health insurance under the filing now before the court. IUE-CWA represents workers at GM's assembly plant in Moraine, Ohio, which closed on Dec. 23.

The presidential task force overseeing the auto industry bankruptcies preempted an earlier agreement IUE-CWA to establish a voluntary employee' beneficiary association (VEBA) to fund retiree health benefits. 

CWA will continue to demand that the commitments made to retirees be honored and urged the administration not to permit this injustice to stand.