Eramet Marietta workers approved a new three-year labor agreement Friday.

"We do have a contract," said Steve Brown, president of United Steelworkers Local 1-0063, which represents 142 employees at the Ohio 7 facility. "We're going to be working another three years."

Meanwhile, employees of Fenton Art Glass in Williams-town will vote on a new contract Saturday.

Brown declined to release the totals of the Eramet vote, but said "most everybody was pretty happy" with the contract.

"We got some stuff that most everybody wanted," he said.

The company is also satisfied with the contract, according to Joy Frank-Collins, Eramet spokeswoman.

"We're incredibly pleased with the results of the union vote," she said. "It came about because of the hard work of both the company and the union's negotiating team."

Frank-Collins said changes from the previous contract, which was set to expire Sunday, "will help position the plant, and our employees, for the future."

Eramet Marietta, the only manganese ferroalloy producer in the United States and Canada, employs a total of approximately 200 people. The company employed more than 300 workers locally but announced in January 2009 it was laying off 110 workers.

Since then, officials say things have stabilized at the plant, and plans are still in place for $40 million in upgrades at the facility. Still, Frank-Collins and Brown both acknowledged earlier this week that the economy was a factor in negotiations.

This is the first new contract negotiation for Eramet Marietta since a five-month lockout ended in early 2007.

Also on Friday, Fenton and the negotiating committee of the United Steelworkers Union reached a tentative agreement for a three-year contract, according to a press release issued by Fenton President George Fenton.

The members of United Steelworkers Union Local 508T and 508T-01 will have an informational meeting on the contract at 11 a.m. today at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Hall, 201 Front St., Marietta, with a vote on the contract immediately following the meeting.

The union represents 88 glass workers at the factory, which has been making handmade art glass in Williamstown since Jan. 2, 1907.

Since that year, workers at Fenton have been represented by the American Flint Glass Workers Union (AFGWU). In 2003, that union became part of the United Steelworkers of America.