Union to vote on granting panel power to call strike BY PETER DUJARDIN, Hampton Roads Daily Press, VA
The Steelworkers union at Northrop Grumman Newport News has scheduled a strike-authorization vote that would give the union's bargaining committee the ability to call a walkout among hourly workers if the committee deems it necessary.
Union officials made clear that the authority to call a strike wouldn't necessarily mean that a walkout would happen - or even that it would be more likely. And any move by the bargaining committee to strike, they said, would only take place with a great deal of consultation with the rank and file.