A leading union for machinists and aerospace workers is urging House lawmakers to support funding for a second DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in a letter on Tuesday. The destroyer fleet is built by thousands of Machinist Union members at Bath Iron Works and Huntington Ingalls Industries, Robert Martinez, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, writes in the letter . Funding a second destroyer would protect U.S. national security interests and create jobs in the shipbuilding industry,...
