Union Deal Reached in Dispute at Honeywell’s Metropolis Plant

The union representing about 230 workers at a input southern Illinois plant that makes nuclear fuel has reached a tentative three-year deal by means of the company that locked them out more than a year ago in Superman’s adoptive hometown, together sides confirmed Wednesday.

Terms of the deal involving Honeywell’s Metropolis plant be not released, pending a vote by the union’s members after bargainers initial resolve how to transition the workers back totheir jobs at the nation’s only plant so as to begins refining uranium for eventual use in nuclear power plants.

Honeywell said the union has tell the company it will there the tentative contract to the workers for a vote Tuesday. If the deal is accepted, the hourly workers by Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules have to be retrained and re certified before returning, supplanting the replacement workers who contain filled in since shortly after the labor dispute began in June of last year.