Northrop Grumman and United Steelworkers
of America
Raise Wall on Habitat for Humanity House
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Northrop Grumman
Newport News and the United Steelworkers of America
raised the wall on their fourth Habitat for Humanity
house on Oct. 19.
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Participants in the
Habitat for Humanity wall raising included (from
left) Bill Ermatinger, Northrop Grumman Newport
News vice president of human resources and administration;
Alton Glass, president, United Steelworkers of America
(Local 8888); future Habitat homeowner Juanita Wright;
and Bill Harriday, United Steelworkers of America
national representative.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Oct. 27, 2005
– Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) and the
United Steelworkers of America (Local 8888) participated
in a wall-raising ceremony Oct. 19 to kick-off construction
of their fourth Habitat for Humanity house. Habitat for
Humanity builds simple and affordable houses in partnership
with those in need of adequate shelter.
The house, which is being called “Labor
Management House 4,” will be constructed by volunteer
shipbuilders from Northrop Grumman’s Newport News
sector and is expected to be completed early next year.
“Our shipbuilders make financial donations
to many organizations in the community,” said Bill
Ermatinger, vice president of Human Resources and Administration
for Northrop Grumman Newport News. “But the volunteers
with this project donate a lot more than dollars, they
give their precious time.”
Representatives from Northrop Grumman Newport
News, the Steelworkers Union, Peninsula Habitat for Humanity
and the future homeowner, Juanita Wright, participated
in the ceremony.
The building lot is located on Wolf Trap
Road in Yorktown, Va. and was donated by Wright.
Northrop Grumman Newport News, headquartered
in Newport News, Va., is the nation's sole designer, builder
and refueler of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and
one of only two companies capable of designing and building
nuclear-powered submarines.
