• Utility Workers Union of America Local 369, which had been picketing Pilgrm Station on the Massachusetts coast since its contract ran out June 6, voted 141-67 for the latest package. Without an agreement in place, Entergy had locked them out and brought in replacement workers.
• The dispute had centered on health care and retirement and other benefits.
• Pilgrim recently got a 20-year license extension from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a decision that environmental groups and the state attorney general are fighting.

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Union workers from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth voted Sunday to ratify a new four-year contract after months of heated negotiations and, most recently, a lockout.