61.  Workers will hold a ratification vote Sunday, union spokesman Reg McGhee said.

62.  Patriotic Union spokesman Shazad Saib claimed that Turkish troops were also helping the KDP fighters by shelling and strafing its positions.

63.  Paul Lackie, a Comair captain and union spokesman, said the phone calls started after pilots overwhelmingly rejected a settlement offer from federal mediators.

64.  Picketing was also planned this evening at the Omaha airport if an agreement had not been reached, union spokesman Hal Myers said.

65.  A date was not immediately set but union spokesman Joerg Barczynski said he thought talks would likely begin this weekend.

66.  A union spokesman at Hyundai Motors, speaking on condition of anonymity, said workers were not enthusiastic about a strike.

67.  A union spokesman said strikers planned to protest outside the occupied refineries but had been instructed not to use violence.

68.  A union spokesman said the accord favored big transport firms and did not include the basic demand of a cut in fuel taxes.

69.  A union spokesman said turnout was heavy Thursday among employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission in a vote on whether to join the National Treasury Employees Union.

70.  A union spokesman, Ruediger Loewe, said Thursday that there was no agreement on when talks might resume.