VOTE AT SKUNK WORKS FAVORS STRIKE.Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire Services A union representing more than 1,800 Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. Skunk skunk, name for several related New World mammals of the weasel family, characterized by their conspicuous black and white markings and use of a strong, highly offensive odor for defense. Works employees authorized a strike to begin this weekend if a new contract is not worked out. The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers is an AFL-CIO/CLC trade union representing approx. 646,933 workers as of 2006 in more than 200 industries. voted Sunday to authorize a strike. The union represents approximately 34 percent of the Skunk Works employees. Lockheed Marn and the union have been negotiating for two months on new contracts for workers at Palmdale and at Lockheed Martin companies in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Marietta, Ga. Sunnyvale employees agreed to a new pact, but the workers in Marietta and Palmdale did not. Details of the contract offer were not released. ``We're pleased the employees at Sunnyvale voted to ratify the contract,'' said Skunk Works spokeswoman Ellen Bendell. ``We're disappointed the employees at Palmdale and Marietta vetoed it. We're willing to sit down with the union and listen to what they have to say.'' The company is working on contingency plans A plan involving suitable backups, immediate actions and longer term measures for responding to computer emergencies such as attacks or accidental disasters. Contingency plans are part of business resumption planning. in the event of a strike. Projects at the company include building the X-33, an experimental aircraft designed to test technologies the company plans to use in a reusable spacecraft, and building two prototypes for the Joint Strike Fighter program The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) became synonymous with the later F-35 Lightning II, however until 2001 the term was applied to the competition between the Boeing X-32 and Lockheed Martin X-35. , an aircraft intended to be used by all branches of the military to replace a number of existing jets, including the Air Force-16. In Marietta, the union represents 4,300 employees. A company spokeswoman said Monday that Lockheed Martin is willing to try new talks with the union leadership. ``We're willing to sit down with the union and see what they have to say about,'' said spokeswoman Susan Miles Susan Miles was the nom de plume of Ursula Wyllie Roberts (1887-1975). She was born in India, where her father was a colonel in the British military. Miles published Dunch (1918), Annotations (1922), Little Mirrors (not dated, 1923?), . ``We're disappointed the employees didn't ratify the agreement. We negotiated in good faith for more than two months and there was a lot of give and take on both sides.'' The Machinists union represents a range of employees from clerical workers to highly skilled aircraft workers. Lockheed Martin's plant just northwest of Atlanta manufactures the C-130J cargo plane cargo plane n → avión m de carga cargo plane n → avion-cargo m cargo plane cargo n → and is the lead developer of the F-22 fighter. The company has been under pressure to cut costs. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion