BY FRANK FORRESTAL
Almost one month after soundly rejecting Caterpillar's contract offer, UAW members will be voting on a new contract offer this weekend. According to the union, Caterpillar has agreed to bring back all the "illegally terminated" UAW members fired by the world's largest maker of construction equipment.

The earlier offer proposed that only 110 of the 160 "illegally terminated" would get their jobs back. The refusal to bring back all the fired workers was the main reason the contract was rejected, although many UAW members were unhappy with other aspects of the contract offer, including two-tier wages for new hires.

Reports indicate that the new contract will be essentially the same, except for the provision on bringing back all of the fired workers. See next week's issue for further coverage.  
 
 
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