PPL, IBEW Local 1600 Reach Tentative Contract Agreement

ALLENTOWN, Pa., May 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Negotiators for PPL and Local 1600 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union have reached agreement on a new, four-year labor contract. The tentative agreement was signed by the parties on Tuesday (5/9).

The company will not release terms of the agreement until the union has had a chance to discuss the settlement with its members. Members will vote by mail over the next several weeks.

The current four-year pact expired at midnight Sunday (5/7) and union members agreed to continue working on a day-by-day basis until the new agreement is ratified.

Local 1600 represents about 3,500 PPL employees at company operations in Pennsylvania. It is the largest of the company's labor unions.

PPL Corporation , headquartered in Allentown, Pa., controls about 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America. More information is available at http://www.pplweb.com/.