Workers told of layoffs at Pascagoula shipyard (2500 in next 3 yrs)

[UpInArms]

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/politics/10590182.htm

PASCAGOULA, Miss. - About 120 workers at Northrop Grumman Ship Systems' Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula will be laid off in two weeks.

Northrop Grumman notified the workers Thursday, one day after the company announced that cutbacks in the U.S. Navy's budget likely will mean a reduction in 2,500 jobs in the next three years at its Avondale shipyard in New Orleans and Ingalls in Pascagoula.

The layoffs are in the drafting/design section. Jim Cassady, Ship Systems' vice president for human resources and administration, said the affected workers were notified that the layoffs become effective on Jan. 20.

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Wonder if "Helmet Hair" cheerleader Lott is supporting the troops or the pResident?

[MaineDem]

1. This is not good news for Maine

Bath Iron Works seems to get the jobs those shipyards don't. BIW has had a cut back on its work. And now the layoffs in Mississippi!

Maine's Congressional delegation is not the most favored with the Administration so I can't see why we'd get contracts and those Mississippi places won't.

Not good news for Maine.

[recovering democrat]

2. Bush "rewards"

Looking forward to seeing Lott get in the line with McCain. When more Republicans figure out Bush has no more respect or loyalty for them than he does for "bi-partisan" Dems, they will have to live with their own lack of principle in supporting him.

[hadrons]

3. well, the people of Mississippi voted their 'morals'

pack that between two sciles of bread

[Carolina]

4. Mississippi

Land of Gov. Haley Barbour (sp?), Sen. Trent Lott and many Bush-Cheney lovin' voters. Place where Reagan launched his 1980 post-convention states' rights campaign tour, site where Goodman, Chaney and Schwermer were murdered for trying to register Black voters ...

'Nuf said!

[gnofg]

5. Reagans

absolutely Reagan's most dispicable act

[54anickel]

6. UIA, do you think some of that is from the competition coming from

Japan, S Korea and China as well? From yesterday's SMW:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/06/business/worldbusiness/06ships.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1105120202-ICHeb3Zc1Ru/r8Yez/8n/w

Korean Shipbuilders See China's Shadow

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Not content with making some of the most complex products on the world market, naval engineers for the Hyundai Heavy Industries Company are drawing up computer models to increase the size of the largest container ships by more than 25 percent, creating a supervessel that could carry 10,000 steel containers, enough freight capacity for 30 million pairs of sneakers.

Only in 2004, when South Korea exported ships with a value of $15.09 billion, did it definitively wrest from Japan the status of the world's leading shipbuilding nation.

But the South Koreans are already looking over their shoulder at China, which has embarked on a path toward becoming the largest shipbuilder by 2015. Chinese competition, which has unnerved American manufacturers, is also putting much of Asia on edge as China rapidly narrows the technological gap with higher-wage Asian neighbors.

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After receiving record orders in 2004 - for 102 ships worth $8.3 billion - Hyundai can afford to be picky. With more than three years of work already booked, it is letting Chinese yards win contracts for low-end jobs like simple tankers and bulk carriers. Hyundai has three joint ventures in China, and it already farms out some of its low-technology shipbuilding work to these companies.

South Korea's two other major shipbuilders, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries, are juggling a similar wealth of orders. Foreign investors own 24 percent of Hyundai Heavy Industries and 36 percent of Daewoo Shipbuilding.

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[Rainscents]

7. Sleeping America...

need to wake up!!! This country is going down to toilet!!! So many people voted for BUSH because he is decisive man instead of their own interest. Give me a fuck-en break!

[Kolesar]

9. where can I buy stock in Hyundai?

[UpInArms]

10. I think that between the cheaper Asian products

and the cutbacks in the military (because of the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan) there will be a lot of subcontractors cutting their projects.

[leesa]

8. Good. I'll bet most were Bush lovers.

America is getting what it so richly deserves.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Our ability to defend ourselves is at risk

What's left of America's once mighty industries? Electric Boat in CT sees layoffs (our ONLY nuke sub builder). Now this. And it is the designers that are going. Not only manufacturing, but also our brain trust. Our aircraft industry has been challenged by Europe's Airbus. Swedish (Saab) and French military jets. Our basic steel industry is near-dead. The real list is far longer.

Why are we fearing terrorists when the real fear ought to be our looming inability to do anything for ourselves? We make NOTHING in the US anymore ...... except trouble.

on edit .... there was a recent post here that we're about to start buying ammunition from Taiwan! We are truly too fat and lazy for our own good.