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HII NNS Reaches New Labor Contract Agreement With United Steelworkers

Wednesday, March 9th, 2022

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HII NNS Reaches New Labor Contract Agreement With United Steelworkers

A forward section of the future USS John F. Kennedy’s main deck is lifted into place at Huntington Ingalls Industry’s Newport News Shipbuilding. (Photo: John Walen/HII).

Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] recently said the United Steelworkers union members at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) approved a new labor contract to last through early 2027. The union approved the contract 3,678 to 533 to ratify a new 60-month labor contract. It takes effect as of March 8 and will last through Feb. 7, 2027. HII said the new contract includes general wage increases and bonuses, a freeze on employee health care premiums for three plan years, news medical benefits…

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