41.   End the lockout of your real National Basketball Association referees by negotiating a new labor contract.

42.   Even more important, the two sides hope settlement discussions can lead to agreement on a new labor contract.

43.   Ever since Chrysler reached the national labor contract, it has been struggling to conclude factory-level agreements with union locals.

44.   Everything is up for grabs as executives re-evaluate their operations, from legroom to labor contracts.

45.   Federal Express Corp. and negotiators for its pilots union said they reached agreement on a four-year labor contract.

46.   Ford Motor Co. and United Auto Workers negotiators unexpectedly missed a midnight Saturday deadline to hammer out a new labor contract and continued to bargain into early Sunday.

47.   Ford has been seeking a labor contract that would last at least four years, instead of the usual three.

48.   Ford Motor Co. and United Auto Workers negotiators unexpectedly failed to complete a new labor contract before a midnight Saturday deadline and continued to bargain into early Sunday.

49.   Gov. George Pataki said Monday that he would not attempt to renegotiate state labor contracts that allow unmarried employees to apply for health insurance benefits for their domestic partners.

50.   Hargrove also said that he would not object if the UAW reached a labor contract with GM while Canadian workers remained on strike.