THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, August 17, 1996 TAG: 9608170496
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: D1 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: 22 lines
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, right, visited Newport News
Shipbuilding on Friday. Sweeney lunched with shipyard executives and
labor leaders, shook hands with rank-and-file Steelworkers and
toured the first commercial oil tanker the yard has built since
1979. The big Peninsula shipyard recently completed the hull of the
Despotico, above behind a brass propeller, one of four tankers being
built for a Greek ship owner. The shipyard also will build five
similar double-hulled tankers, which are being paid for in part by
a pension fund run by Union Labor Life Insurance Co. Inc. The
tankers are to be built and crewed by union labor.
KEYWORDS: NEWPORT NEWS SHIPBUILDING UNION by CNB