Union trips up member's trip to India for surgery.(TAR HEEL TATTLER)

Business North Carolina | December 1, 2006| | Copyright

This is a story about Carl Garrett's gallbladder--a tale that might have meandered in obscurity from the forests of the Blue Ridge Mountains to the plains of India and back if not for the griping of a Pittsburgh-based labor union. It is a tale of sickness and health, of globalization and collective bargaining. And like many Southern yarns, it is a tale of a lost cause.

Garrett fixes and maintains machines at Canton-based Blue Ridge Paper Products Inc., which is 45% owned by its workers. Saddled with rising health-care costs, the company last year began exploring ways ...

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