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UAW to File Suit Against Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation

27 April 1999

UAW to File Suit Against Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation

          Suit Seeks to Recover Billions for Injured Workers' Claims

    COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 8 -- Today Warren Davis, Director
Region 2, UAW and Lloyd Mahaffey, Director Region 2B, UAW announced they will
file a lawsuit on behalf of the over 100,000 members of the United Auto
Workers throughout the state to put a stop to the corporate raiding of the
Bureau of Workers' Compensation Fund (BWC).
    The original action, to be filed on Friday April 9, 1999, asks that the
BWC cease the raiding of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation Fund.
    The suit aims to recover billions of dollars earmarked for injured
workers' claims.  Details of the suit will made available when the suit is
filed tomorrow.