Pantex Workers Ratify Contract, Ending Strike

Union members at the Pantex nuclear weapons maintenance plant near Amarillo, Texas, have ratified a four-year collective bargaining agreement covering about 1,200 workers, ending a strike that lasted 37 days, a union official told Bloomberg BNA Oct. 5.

Ron Ault, president of the AFL-CIO’s Metal Trades Department, said workers ratified the contract Oct. 4 by a “very narrow margin.” Workers at the facility are represented by the Pantex Metal Trades Council, which includes 10 unions.

The facility is charged with maintaining and dismantling nuclear weapons and is operated by Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC under contract with the Energy Department’s National ...