More than 600 workers at GE Aerospace sites in Erlanger, Kentucky, and Evendale, Ohio, are on strike, according to the union representing them.

The contract the UAW Local 647 members had with GE expired at midnight Wednesday. The company and the union had been locked in negotiations over a new contract.

The union says 84% of its members voted to authorize the strike last week.

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"Our members aren’t asking to be millionaires," UAW Local 647 President Brad Strunk said in a statement. “We are simply demanding things that every worker deserves: decent health care and a secure future. We are going to stand together as a united membership until we win what we are owed.”

At a rally last week , Strunk said workers especially objected to a proposed boost in health car

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