IS INGALLS SHIPBUILDING COMPANY ORGANIZED?
JH: Yes in fact we are working with 180 or so workers who are all members of various unions. There are 16 craft unions, from carpenters to boilermakers to welders, most affiliated with the AFL-CIO. In many cases we find the response on the part of labor has been lukewarm in terms of these issues. Organized labor focuses on the wage issue and, in some instances, health care for the workers. But there is very little focus on issues concerning race discrimination in the workplace. We are constantly working with organized labor to change that reality so that this becomes a union issue they take up just like they would take up someone being fired for no reason or a contract agreement broken in some other way. PA: WHAT KINDS OF RELATIONSHIPS ARE YOU TRYING TO BUILD WITH LABOR? JH: We are working now in coalition with some labor organizations to deal with the workers comp situation. The Mississippi Alliance of State Employees, better known as MASE, an affiliate of the Communication Workers of
