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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - Auto-parts supplier Delphi Corp. and the United Steelworkers have reached a tentative agreement covering some 900 Ohio workers, the union local said Friday.Local 87L President Dennis Bingham said in a statement that details of the agreement are being withheld pending meetings with the membership, which will vote on ratification. If ratified, the contract would run to Sept. 14, 2011.The USW represents workers at plants in Dayton and nearby Vandalia.The contract also must be approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York.The Steelworkers were the last union working on a new contract with Delphi, which is trying to emerge from bankruptcy. A Delphi spokeswoman declined comment Friday.A federal judge Thursday approved four other union settlements, including a deal with the International Union of Electronic Workers-Communications Workers of America. The union represents about 2,000 employees with about 1,050 at plants in Warren in northeast Ohio and the Dayton suburbs of Kettering and Moraine.The bankruptcy court last month approved the Troy, Mich.-based Delphi's new agreement with its biggest union, the United Auto Workers, which represents 17,000 Delphi workers, including those at a plant in Sandusky, Ohio.Delphi employs nearly 6,000 workers in Ohio. Delphi has said it wants to close or sell most of its 29 U.S. plants as it restructures and shrinks itself into a smaller company -- including six of its 10 plants in Ohio.Troy, Mich.-based Delphi is the former parts division of General Motors Corp., which spun it off in 1999. Delphi entered bankruptcy protection in October 2005 and hopes to emerge this year.The company has said it needed union concessions to be able to compete against suppliers with cheaper labor costs.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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