Posted on 01/03/2024 8:41:08 AM PST by cp124
The United States Navy has appropriated $34 million for six new workforce initiatives at Bath Iron Works (BIW) as part of the Fiscal Year 2023 Defense Appropriations bill.
This inclusion came at the request of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) as part of a larger effort to improve the infrastructure at shipyards responsible for building the Navy’s destroyers.
“The crews of the Bath-built DDG-51 destroyers defending commercial shipping in the Red Sea today serve as vivid reminders of how important it is that the United States maintain a robust shipbuilding capability to support the U.S. Navy,” Sen. Collins said in a statement released Tuesday.
“These workforce investments are aimed at strengthening the backbone of BIW,” Collins said. “which is the thousands of dedicated workers who build the world’s most capable combat surface ships.”
According to Collins’ press release, the funding will go to a range of initiatives at BIW, such as the introduction of on-the-job training, as well as housing, childcare, and free bus services for employees.
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So, Trump is tossed off the ballot is Maine and a week later Maine gets 34 million in naval contracts.
Move along, nothing to see here.
And the best way to do that is with child care and bus service.
I prefer slips, cranes, foundries, cable extrusion etc
So do I.
freepersup: FWIW- Builders are popping these ships out for around 1.4 billion a piece... GD BIW (Maine) is tasked with constructing 3 ships and HII Ingalls (Mississippi) is constructing 7 ships.
CONTRACTS
Contracts For Sept. 6, 2023
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UPDATE: Contract announcements for General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (GD BIW), Bath, Maine (N00024-23-C-2305) on Aug. 1, 2023; and Huntington Ingalls Inc., Ingalls Shipbuilding (HII Ingalls), Pascagoula, Mississippi (N00024-23-C-2307) on Aug. 11, 2023, for DDG 51 class ship construction did not include funding amounts. The two firms were awarded fixed-price incentive (firm target) multiyear contracts for construction of 10 DDG 51 class ships totaling $14,580,817,751. GD BIW was awarded three DDG 51 class ships – one each in fiscal 2023, 2024, and 2026. HII Ingalls was awarded seven ships - two in fiscal 2023, one in 2024, two in 2025, one in 2026, and one in 2027. These contracts include options for engineering change proposals, design budgeting requirements, post-delivery availabilities on the awarded firm multiyear ships and options for construction of additional DDG 51 class ships.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/3517358/
How many welding machines or robots and welding inspection x-rays could be purchased
I’ve been to Bath Iron Works, very neat place with the museum and everything.
Sounds like they’re getting a village.
I read this as an indication that we need to get more ship builders trained…and soon.
This smells like the defense production efforts in 1940/41 that drew the US out of the Depression.
I imagine BIW was gleeful when they got the checks.
I guess they need to get paid more if they can’t afford housing, child care, transportation. More taxpayer paid corporate welfare.
Full-year 2021 net earnings of $3.3 billion and diluted EPS of $11.55 on $38.5 billion in revenue
“Increasing the number of workers trained at BIW apprentice academies;”
“Providing new workers on-the-job training at the shipyard to reduce the training timeline from five years to three years;”
“Funding for 85 new housing units for BIW workers closer to the shipyard;”
“150 additional year-round childcare slots for BIW workers;”
“Free bus services for BIW employees in the Bath and Brunswick areas;”
“Other retention improvement activities.”
These are what are called infrastructure investments.
BIW is on a very compact site along the Kennebec River. Getting to and from the property is very difficult, especially at shift changes.
85 people living close to the property is 85 people not driving to work at shift change. They may have car, but are not using them at this high traffic time of day.
Same with bus service, although ship yard workers like to have their bag ass trucks nearby.
The childcare stuff is just fluff.
I’ve been to Bath Iron Works, very neat place with the museum and everything.
You must have been in the machine shop. It would be up-to-date if it was the 1960’s. It is a joke.
“Six new initiatives”
Is that a type of ship? The Navy is suppposed to send money to BIW to BUILD SHIPS, amirite?
I wonder what the average salary is at BIW ?
I just looked at realtor.com. Housing prices in Bath look pretty expensive. Brunswick is the largest town around. That is also pretty expensive. Not much under $400K. IF you head towards Booth bay it gets even more expensive. It sounds like they need some kind of work force housing.
When I was there they were building AEGIS Destroyer gun ships. Arguably the most technologically advanced gun boat ever. Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t see a joke.
All a bunch of BS to hide what the money will really go to.
“Climate Justice”
“Illegal aliens on the ship yard = diversity”
“Unqualified blacks in positions of power = equity”
“Trannies and tampons in men’s bathrooms = inclusion”
Let’s see BIW run their cranes and welders on solar panels and windmills.
Maybe it’s just me, but I didn’t see a joke.
I was referring to the machine shop. If they were not on the government gravy train and in the private sector, they would have gone belly up a long time ago.
This is not corporate welfare this is Democrat job security.
Most unions vote for and donate Heavily to Democrats, who become elected officials who decide who gets hired in the government and who gets budget money.Government employees decide which corporations get contracts.
Corporations that don’t take “care” of their unions, get screwed.
Corporations have a fiduciary duty to the share holders to make money for the share holders.
Since unions suck up all the profits there is no money left to invest in the future of the company such as automation, updated facilities, and increased productivity.
That is why the USA has lost it’s major industries to others that invest in modern facilities, automation, and increased productivity, because these advancements put idiot Democrats that can’t adapt out of work.
We can’t have Democrat workers, getting six figure salaries for doing the bare minimum, out of work can we?
That likely true. Regards.
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