After negotiations with unionized workers at its Kentucky manufacturing plant, which GE Appliances said was losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, the company lowered the starting wage for new hires. "GE Appliances CEO Blankenship Leaving Post," at 10:39 ET, misstated that the company cut employees' wages in the fourth paragraph.

 

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