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End Unclear to Seven-week Machinists Strike at Lockheed Martin
Machinists union members picket outside the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in this photo posted on the union’s strike website. (Photo: IAM Local 776)
Machinists union members picket outside the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics plant in Fort Worth, Texas, in this photo posted on the union’s strike website. (Photo: IAM Local 776)

A machinists strike at the Lockheed Martin Aeronautics plant in Fort Worth, Texas, which manufactures the F-16 and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, has stretched into a seventh week, with no sign of an end. Demonstrations were also reported at the Naval Air Station in Patuxent River, Md., where union members are also employed, and at Lockheed Martin’s corporate headquarters in Bethesda, Md.