41.   Negotiators did not settle a three-day strike by two local unions, but a resolution of those walkouts seems likely very soon.

42.   Most of the attendees were members of other local unions, such as the Northern California Media Workers Guild, which is helping the Etown workers organize.

43.   Not surprisingly, the largest local union opted out of the process after two years.

44.   Other local unions and about two dozen companies have donated food and other support to picketing workers, he said.

45.   Replacing Bennett will be Robert Williams, a vice president of the local union and a critic of current labor relations at Saturn.

46.   Senate passes a related measure giving companies greater leeway to set up employer-worker groups outside local unions.

47.   Saying local unions were delaying a Lowell housing rehabilitation project, he said he would not vote for labor-sponsored legislation until local unions ceased their delaying tactics.

48.   Since taking office, he has moved to purge the leadership of corruption-scarred local unions.

49.   She is a vice president of the federation and she succeeded Shanker as president of the local union.

50.   Solis, with backing of local unions, maintained that Martinez had grown out of touch, and just hours before conceding, he called her obnoxious.