Caterpillar Opens 2011 Contract Talks With UAW

Caterpillar Inc. CAT and the United Auto Workers today began negotiations for a new labor agreement. The current contract, ratified in 2005, will expire on March 1, 2011. agreement covers approximately 9,500 production and maintenance workers at the company's Illinois facilities in Aurora, Decatur, East Peoria, Mapleton, Mossville, Morton and Pontiac, as well as those in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. The parties met today and will resume discussions tomorrow. Both parties have agreed to make no public comments to the media on contract issues during the negotiations process. The meetings are taking place in Caterpillar Building CV in East Peoria, Illinois.