Workers OK contract extension

PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Union members voted to accept an offer by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding to extend their work contract by two years. The vote was about 2,300 for an 275 against, according to the Sun Herald. The extension provides for a $1,000 bonus, a maximum 55-cent raise in January and another in early 2011. Workers keep the same health care coverage costs they negotiated in 2007. The contract will now run until March 2012. (Source: Sun Herald, 12/01/09)