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Maine Delegation Worries About COVID-19 At Bath Iron Works

Friday, March 20th, 2020

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Maine Delegation Worries About COVID-19 At Bath Iron Works

The future Zumwalt-class destroyer Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002) was launched at the General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works shipyard in Bath, Maine on Dec. 9, 2018. (Photo: General Dynamics-Bath Iron Works)

This week Maine’s congressional delegation wrote to the Pentagon leadership urging them to help protect shipyard employee health amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter from Senators Susan Collins (R) and Angus King (I) as well as Reps. Chellie Pingree (D) and Jared Golden (D) dated March 19, the lawmakers requested Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly to help mitigate cash flow and other financial burdens contractors and subcontractors may face, help accelerate…

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