21.   General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers reached a tentative contract settlement early Saturday at two Michigan transmission plants, avoiding a potentially costly strike.

22.   Goodyear union employees voted down two other tentative contracts before settling on the current package.

23.   He declined to say if a tentative contract was close.

24.   In December, its ramp and fleet service workers voted down a tentative contract approved by their union leaders and have begun picketing.

25.   Inco Ltd. said its Ontario unionized mine and refinery workers rejected a tentative contract with the nickel producer and a strike is due to start at midnight.

26.   It was the first tentative contract for the Association of Flight Attendants at Airtran, which is based in Orlando, Fla., and was formerly called Valujet.

27.   Johnson Controls Inc. said it and the United Auto Workers reached tentative contract agreements today that would end strikes at two seat plants in Michigan and Ohio.

28.   Johnson Controls Inc. said it reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that would end strikes at two seat plants in Michigan and Ohio.

29.   Last week, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the United Transportation Union, representing conductors, signed tentative contracts, subject to ratification votes by their members.

30.   Lee said a crucial element of the tentative pilot contract at Delta is that it re-establishes a kind of two-tier pay system in the industry.