[CPEO-MEF] WORKERS: "Tennessee workers at military research facility continue strike for health and safety"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tennessee workers at military research facility continue strike for health and safety

By Warren Duzak
World Socialist Web Site
July 13, 2021

Approximately 670 skilled workers at the Arnold Engineering and Development Complex (AEDC) in Tullahoma, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly on Friday to reject a new contract proposal, choosing instead to continue a strike that began on July 2. The deal had been reached between the Air Engineering Metal Trades Council (AEMTC) union and the workers’ employers, National Aerospace Solutions, LLC (NAS) and Chugach Federal Solutions Inc., which are contractors for the AEDC.

The AEDC is a research facility operated by the US Air Force’s Materiel Command, which is headquartered at Arnold Air Force Base in Tullahoma, but composed of 10 facilities spread across the country. The AEDC “operates more than 68 test facilities, including, but not limited to, aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, environmental chambers, arc heaters, ballistic ranges, sled tracks, centrifuges, and other specialized test units,” according to the Air Force.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/07/13/tenn-j13.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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