IAM Local S6 and management at Bath Ironworks, a Maine shipbuilder, have come to terms on a contract pending ratification. This tentative agreement ends a labor stoppage that lasted more than a month.
Bath, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, is the shipyard that produces all of the Navy’s Arleigh Burke destroyers.
The proposal, which was unanimously endorsed by the union’s negotiating team, will be put forth to the 4,300 members of Machinists Local S6 later this month, said Jay Wadleigh, a district union official.
Voting on the proposal will take place online and via telephone from Friday, Aug. 21, to Sunday, Aug. 23.