The Nation - News from March 31, 1986
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Members of an Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union local voted 275 to 65 to accept a contract offer and end their 10 1/2-month-old strike against Nuclear Fuel Services, the Navy’s sole supplier of fuel for atomic-powered submarines. Two days of negotiations with a federal mediator produced agreement on the terms over the weekend, and the uranium plant at Erwin, Tenn., was scheduled to reopen immediately.
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