81.   Striking janitors and six downtown cleaning companies reached a tentative contract agreement, nearly a month after workers walked off the job, the union said Sunday.

82.   The body-hauling duties have been eliminated as part of a tentative contract agreement reached earlier this month between the city and police.

83.   The teachers agreed on Wednesday to go back to work after the union and the school board reached a tentative contract over the Labor Day weekend.

84.   The terms of the tentative contract were not immediately released.

85.   The UAW is expected to release the results of a vote on its tentative contract with DaimlerChrysler on Monday.

86.   Union workers at a Charlotte, N.C. tire plant have reached a tentative contract agreement after nearly yearlong strike.

87.   Unionized employees were called back to work early Wednesday morning, just hours after an all-night round of mediated bargaining produced a tentative contract.

88.   Two days after reaching a tentative contract agreement, striking Hamilton Township teachers and their students hit the books Monday in a belated start of the school year.

89.   US Airways mechanics voted Tuesday on whether to approve a tentative contract agreement with the airline after months of contentious negotiations.

90.   General Motors and the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative contract agreement early Saturday, the company said in a statement.