Headline : Union With Labor Dispute of Its Own Threatened To Cut Off Workers’ Health Benefits

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NOTE: On Friday, hours after KFF Health News reported that the National Education Association had threatened to cut off striking workers’ health benefits, the union reversed course and said it would continue providing coverage. This story has been updated to reflect that decision.

The National Education Association, the nation’s largest union, reversed course Friday on its threat to cut off health insurance to about 300 Washington, D.C.-based workers in an effort to end a bitter contract dispute.

“The NEA is not discontinuing its unionized staff’s health insurance and will continue to pay insurance premiums as we bargain a new contract,” Kim Anderson, NEA’s executive director, said in a statement to KFF Health News. “Both parties have mutually agreed to mediation and we are making every effort to reach an agreement as quickly as possible.”

The NEA’s decision came just hours after KFF Health News reported on the union’s warning that it would cancel health benefits on Aug. 1 for striking workers, including some with ongoing medical issues. Reached Friday, officials at the NEA staff union confirmed they had been notified by the NEA.

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