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Dana, UAW Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract

19 November 1998

Dana, UAW Reach Tentative Agreement on New Contract

    CLEVELAND, Nov. 18 -- Negotiators for the International
Union, UAW, and the Dana Corporation reached tentative agreement
on terms of a new contract early today.
    The announcement of the tentative master agreement was made by UAW Vice
President Elizabeth Bunn, director of the Union's Competitive Shop
Independents, Parts and Supplier Department.  Bunn said the tentative
agreement is being recommended unanimously for ratification by the UAW-Dana
National Negotiating Committee and by representatives of the UAW-Dana Master
Delegate Body.
    Details of the tentative agreement are being withheld pending ratification
meetings which are being scheduled for this coming weekend by five UAW local
unions covering about 2,300 UAW-represented employees in Dana facilities in
four states.
    The tentative agreement would cover workers who are members of UAW Locals
155 in Warren, Michigan; 279 and 1363 at Richmond, Indiana; 644 at Pottstown,
Pennsylvania; and 1765 at Lima, Ohio.