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Machinists Union Sues Pratt & Whitney over Outsourcing Plan.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By Michael Remez, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 13--The Machinists union filed suit against Pratt & Whitney in federal court Tuesday, seeking to stop the jet-engine maker from moving ahead with plans to contract out warehouse and tool-crib work now done by about 150 union workers in its Connecticut plants.

District 26 of the International Association of Machinists alleges that Pratt failed to follow a provision in the contract that calls for the company to work with union leaders to find alternatives to contracting out what is known as "indirect work" -- work not directly tied to building engines.

Jim Parent, assistant directing business representative for District 26, said the contract agreed to...

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