Gauthier in a editorial recently published ... indicated that if the Navy placed the full LPD-17 contract with the Alliance, Avondale would build eight ships and BIW would build four.

BIW would build the entire third ship — including the deckhouse and hangar — out of steel. With the DDG 1000 class poised to be its next class of destroyers, the U.S. Navy took a break in ...

The union flatly rejected the contract. Soon after, BIW received a contract to begin constructing new Navy ships. This caused widespread anger throughout the union workforce because the workers ...