Bath Iron Works Recruits Non-Union Workers As Yard Strike Continues
With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.
With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.
WASHINGTON: Under intense budget pressure, a Pentagon cost-cutting team is pushing the Navy to cancel its third and last Zumwalt-class destroyer, the Lyndon Johnson (DDG-1002). But two sources familiar with the program say this cost-cutting measure just doesn’t add up. The DDG-1000 Zumwalts are expensive; three ships will cost almost $13 billion. About $9 billion of that […]