LETTER 31

HJRP Challenges

Mr. James M. Parent

Assistant Directing Business Representative

District Lodge No. 26

I.A.M.A.W., AFL-CIO

365 New Britain Road

Kensington, Connecticut 06037

Dear Mr. Parent:

This is to confirm the understanding and agreement between the Company and the Union concerning Hourly Job Rating Plan challenges and a review of tenanted and un-tenanted jobs.

It is agreed by the parties that during the life of this Agreement, the Union may challenge the scoring, via the HJRP complaint procedure, of up to ten (10) bargaining unit jobs currently in existence in any of the product centers or similar organizations.

It is further agreed by the parties that a joint committee be established within the first quarter of 2005 for the purpose of reviewing all tenanted and un-tenanted job descriptions in order to remove obsolete job descriptions from the data base.

Sincerely,

James R. Miller

Vice President, Industrial Relations

Accepted this 6th day of December 2004