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UPS, Teamsters at tentative deal
Advertiser Staff and News Services
United Parcel Service Inc. and the Teamsters agreed on a tentative contract yesterday, a union spokesman confirmed. Details weren't immediately released.
The accord covers 240,000 drivers, clerks and package sorters, and was reached about 10 months before the Aug. 1 expiration of the existing contract. Teamsters at UPS now must vote on the tentative agreement.
UPS had sought in the talks to withdraw from the Central States Fund, a multi-employer pension plan for 42,000 Teamsters members at the company. The company sought to establish a new plan for workers that would be jointly managed by Atlanta-based UPS and the union.
FACEBOOK WARNED ON SAFETY CLAIMS
ALBANY, N.Y. — The social networking Web site Facebook has been warned that it could face a consumer fraud charge for failing to live up to claims that youngsters there are safer from sexual predators than at most sites and that it promptly responds to concerns, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said yesterday.
Cuomo announced last week that he had subpoenaed Facebook after he said the company did not respond to "many" complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as 12- to 14-year-olds on the site.
GM CAN CLOSE 2 PLANTS UNDER PACT
DETROIT — The tentative contract between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers would allow GM to close a plant each in Michigan and Indiana and possibly shut down several other facilities, according to a detailed copy of the agreement. The moves are the downside of job security pledges that the UAW won in the negotiations, including commitments for new products at 16 plants. About 74,000 hourly GM workers will vote on the pact starting this week, with a final tally to be done by Oct. 10.
