The largest union at Bath Iron Works, Local S6 Machinist Union, announced Sunday afternoon that it will be striking.

According to the union’s Facebook page, the strike authorization vote was approved by 87%.

This after weeks of unsuccessful negotiating, largely stalling around the issue of subcontractors.

General Dynamics, which owns Bath Iron Works, released a statement saying they are disappointed in the decision to strike, but that they are prepared:

“We obviously are disappointed by this result, but are prepared should a strike occur. BIW will be making additional information available to its employees in the near-term so they can plan accordingly.”

The President of Machinists Local S6, Chris Wiers, released a statement Sunday soon after the vote:

“We are proud of our members for standing up for good jobs for the Maine economy. Our members voted overwhelmingly — 87% — to reject BIW’s contract offer and to go on strike. This level of unity should send a signal to BIW to do what’s right and negotiate a fair contract.

We are proud to build the best ships in the world and we want to keep it that way. We are fighting for good jobs for the Maine economy. We want jobs at the shipyard to be high quality jobs that members can earn a decent living in over a long career. We are adamantly opposed to BIW’s demands to rollback worker protections and job quality standards, to massively increase subcontracting and to gut the language in our contract that makes these decent, safe jobs.

We will stand together until we get the respect and the fair contract that we deserve.”

According to CBS13 news, BIW workers are ready to strike beginning at 12:01 Monday morning.