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"I am extremely pleased that negotiators for Caterpillar
and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement to end this
6-year-old dispute. There were important issues on the table, and both sides
are to be commended for working diligently to resolve them.
"This strike came to be synonymous with the inability of
labor and management to find common ground on key issues. It divided front-line
workers from supervisors and caused deep division in the community. The fact
that these two parties stayed at the bargaining table and reached a tentative
agreement shows that common ground does indeed exist and that the desire for
workers to have job security with good wages and benefits need not conflict
with management's desire for increased efficiency and higher profits.
"I congratulate the union and the company . . . and I join
in celebrating with the 13,000 workers in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Colorado and
Tennessee, covered by this agreement, who will be back at work when it is
ratified."
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