Employees' Health Responsibility
Published: September 29, 2003
Public school districts surrounding Grand Rapids are immersed in the battle of this age: the debacle of employees striking over contract negotiations hung up by health care benefits. There are variations from district to district but the chief complaint is related to employee payment of health care cost deductibles — even as health care costs to employers have seen double-digit increases for well more than five years.

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