Production workers at one of the Navy’s largest shipbuilders have voted to strike.
Machinists Union Local S6 announced Sunday that its 4,300 members rejected a three-year contract proposed by Bath Iron Works in Maine, setting the stage for the first strike in two decades to begin at midnight.
The company’s three-year proposal involved a 3% raise each year.
But the union’s major issue wasn’t with wages, pensions or benefits. Instead, there were more than a dozen changes that the union considered to be concessions including hiring of subcontractors.
Bath Iron Works is a subsidiary of General Dynamics and employs 6,800 people.
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