Bath Iron Works Employees On Strike After Yard, Union Unable to Agree on Measures Taken to Reduce Backlog

Undated Photo of worker at General Dynamic-Bath Iron Works shipyard. BIW Photo

The unionized workforce at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works began its strike today, further delaying work on two destroyer programs when many of the issues the yard and the local union are fighting over are actually related to shipbuilding delays and trying to dig out of a backlog of work.

Though the Local S6 chapter of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers cited concerns over more...

https://news.usni.org/2020/06/22/bath-iron-works-employees-on-strike-after-yard-union-unable-to-agree-on-measures-taken-to-reduce-backlog

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