No Strike at Electric Boat After Union Reaches Tentative Agreement with Submarine Maker

No Strike at Electric Boat After Union Reaches Tentative Agreement with Submarine Maker

The deal was made after a number of contract talks in recent weeks between the Groton-based company and the UAW union, which represents the marine drafters, a group of employees focused on submarine design.

Electric Boat strike averted as CT sub designers agree to contract

The union for about 2,500 submarine designers at Electric Boat in Connecticut has tentatively agreed to a new contract with the company, averting a strike that would have begun Monday. The Marine Draftsmen’s Association-United Auto Workers of America, Local 571, essentially the workers responsible for designing the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet, had threatened to strike earlier this month if the company did not make greater wage and benefi…

Electric Boat Strike Averted With Tentative Deal

GROTON, CT (Updated 1:15 p.m.) — With just hours to go on Sunday before more than 2,000 employees of Electric Boat in Groton were due to go on strike, a deal between the company and MDA UAW Local 571 was tentatively reached.

Strike averted as submarine designers agree to contract with Electric Boat

The union for about 2,500 submarine designers at Electric Boat in Connecticut has tentatively agreed to a new contract with the company, averting a strike that would have begun Monday. The Marine Draftsmen’s Association-United Auto Workers of America, Local 571, essentially the workers responsible for designing the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet, had threatened to strike earlier this month if...

Electric Boat And UAW Union Avoid Strike In Tentative Agreement - Defense Daily

General Dynamics Electric Boat [GD] and the Marine Draftsmen’s Association (MDA) UAW Local 571 union reached a tentative agreement Sunday night, avoiding a strike by the 2,500 draftsmen, designers and […]