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UAW and Caterpillar Reach Tentative Agreement on Terms of New Contract

14 February 1998

UAW and Caterpillar Reach Tentative Agreement on Terms of New Contract

    DETROIT, Feb. 13 -- UAW President Stephen P. Yokich, Vice
President Richard Shoemaker, and Region 4 Director Paul Korman announced that
the UAW and Caterpillar Inc. reached tentative agreement early
today on terms of a proposed new contract.
    The comprehensive tentative agreement is being recommended by the UAW
Caterpillar Central Negotiating Committee for ratification by the
approximately 13,000 UAW members at Caterpillar facilities.
    Ratification meetings are to be scheduled and completed by the seven
UAW-Caterpillar local unions no later than the weekend of February 21-22, said
Shoemaker, who is director of the Union's Agricultural Implement Department.
    Details of the proposed agreement are being withheld pending ratification.
    John Calhoun Wells, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service, played a very constructive role in the complex and lengthy
negotiations between the UAW and Caterpillar that produced the tentative
agreement.  An extension of the prior central agreement expired on November 3,
1991.
    Covered by the negotiations with Caterpillar are members of Locals 145 at
Aurora, 751 at Decatur, 974 at Peoria and several nearby communities, and 2096
at Pontiac, all in Illinois; 786 at York, Pennsylvania; 1415 at Denver,
Colorado, and 1989 at Memphis, Tennessee.

SOURCE  UAW