“Union workers at General Electric Co.’s steam turbine and generator plant in Schenectady held a noon rally Wednesday outside GE’s main gate to urge the company to allow them to make medical ventilator machines as part of the company’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
GE’s healthcare unit already is making ventilators using third parties and in cooperation with automakers, but the company’s main union, the CWA, is asking GE to open up other factory sites in the U.S. to making ventilators using excess labor capacity in Schenectady and elsewhere.”
