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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Katie Fairbank
Feb. 28--The very real possibility of program cuts set a sobering mood in recent weeks during contract talks between Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. and military aircraft production workers in several states.
Looming over the discussions about wage increases and pension plans was the consideration that some of the Fort Worth-based company's plants, which make the F/A-22 Raptor and C-130J Hercules, will not survive if President Bush's defense budget is accepted.
About 6,000 union members in Georgia, California, Mississippi, Florida and West Virginia will vote Sunday on three separate three-year contracts negotiated with that possibility in mind.
Union workers at the Fort Worth plant will negotiate their own contract in 2006.
"I think the seriousness of this sunk in...
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