Once that is done, the unions -- the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers -- will submit the contract to membership for ratification.
Once that final issue is resolved the contract can go before the musicians for ratification, he said.
If the union board approves the contract proposal, it will be sent to the union's 120,000 members for ratification, which requires a majority vote.
They also note that the Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, never brought charges against any fund official, while he brought charges and won convictions against more than 20 officials at the council, for embezzlement or for rigging a 1995 contract ratification vote.
The contract requires ratification by the union's 2,400 members.
He called the odds for ratification "favorable".
A majority is required for ratification.
Then they embarked on an aggressive public relations campaign for ratification, spending money on a roadside billboard in Albany and setting up phone banks to persuade members to support the revised contract and save their colleagues' jobs.
The Senate has made such participation a prerequisite for ratification.
the term for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
