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United Steelworkers Reach Tentative Agreement With General Tire

16 September 1999

United Steelworkers of America Reach Tentative Agreement With Continental General Tire in Charlotte

    PITTSBURGH, Sept. 15 -- Some 1,450 members of the United
Steelworkers of America (USWA) Local 850 in Charlotte, North Carolina, who
have been on strike for one year, have reached a tentative contract agreement
with German-owned Continental General Tire.
    The tentative agreement will be voted on by USWA Local 850 members on
Sunday, September 19.  Monday, September 20, would mark the one-year
anniversary of the strike.
    Tentative agreements with Continental General were simultaneously reached
by USWA Local 665 in Mayfield, KY and USWA Local 890 in Bryan, OH and will
also be the subject of ratification votes by workers at these plants.  Before
these tentative agreements were reached, contracts at the Ohio and Kentucky
plants were not due to expire until late in the year 2000.
    Details of the agreements, which if ratified will expire in 2006, will not
be available until Steelworkers at the three plants have voted on them.