Industries

Retirees thought GE would take care of them forever. It didn’t

Natasha Rausch

12/19/2018

NEW YORK – Back in 1971, when he went to work at a General Electric Co. plant in upstate New York, John Phelps probably wasn’t naive in believing that the company would take care of him to the grave. That was reasonable in those days, when so many jobs in the United States still came…

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