THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, March 30, 1995 TAG: 9503300413
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Daily Digest
LENGTH: Short : 23 lines
After 17 years as active Steelworkers, a group of laborers at Newport News Shipbuilding is threatening to try to oust the union, saying it fails to represent the workers. The group, which claims it can gather the thousands of supporters needed to decertify Local 8888, could pose the first challenge to the United Steelworkers of America since it unseated the Peninsula Shipbuilders Association in 1978. The Steelworkers represent about 7,000 of the shipyard's 12,000 hourly laborers. The splinter group would need signatures of 3,600 union-eligible employees on a petition to challenge the union by 1997. (Knight-Ridder Financial News) by CNB