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Article: Nuclear-Plant Workers at Peco Energy Reject Unionization.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- March 26, 1997
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Mar. 26--Workers at Peco Energy Co.'s Limerick and Peach Bottom nuclear plants have resoundingly rejected unionization, voting 695-228 not to join the Utility Workers Union of America.
Another 228 ballots cast in the election Monday were challenged, but they were "not enough to affect the outcome of the election," said Francis W. Hoeber, acting Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board, which announced the results yesterday.
"We are thankful that Peco Nuclear employees overwhelmingly voted to reject union representation," Peco president and chief executive officer Corbin A. McNeill Jr. said in a statement. "It is obvious that our ...