41.   Elsewhere in the Northwest, shares of Boeing Co. were little changed after the company and its striking union said Friday that they would resume contract talks this week.

42.   Employees now average more than nine hours a day per shift during a five-day work week, the union has said.

43.   Even the establishment of an agency shop, in which non-union employees pay a percentage of dues, would be an improvement, the unions said.

44.   Even though the union says the implemented provisions are illegal, those provisions are not the only rules in effect.

45.   For example, the union says it has already been able to preserve jobs within the company that had been earmarked for subcontractors.

46.   Fresh from organizing more than a hundred Tucson doctors, a national physicians union says it now is turning its eye toward physicians in the Phoenix area.

47.   Fresh from organizing more than an a hundred Tucson doctors, a national physician union says it plans to turn its organizing eye to the Phoenix area.

48.   Giuliani has said that a huge raise is not needed, and that the teacher shortage is not as bad as the union says.

49.   He laid off thousands of state workers, a move unions say he made while protecting those in higher-paid management positions.

50.   He said the disparity between the Continental and American pensions for pilot is only one-fifth what the union says.