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Wednesday, 16 October 2019

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Sheriff's Office investigating copper theft at Lockport shipyard

Houma Today 16 Oct 2019

Authorities are asking the public for help in an investigation into copper that was recently stolen from a Lockport shipyard.Deputies were called out to a Lockport shipyard last week after a suspect stole two rolls of copper welding, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office ......

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Lockheed Martin-led Team Begins Construction on Navy's Littoral Combat Ship, the future USS Nantucket

The Record 10 Oct 2019

As part of a ship-building tradition dating back centuries, a shipyard worker welded the initials of Polly Spencer, USS Nantucket ship sponsor and wife of U.S ... "It will confront humanitarian relief all the way to great power competition, drawing on the strength of every weld, every rivet applied by the great people here."....

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Former Newport News shipyard inspector pleads guilty to falsifying welding reports

The Virginian-Pilot 03 Oct 2019

A former Newport News shipyard worker has admitted in federal court to falsifying weld inspection reports, actions that prompted ......

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Former Newport News shipyard inspector pleads guilty to falsifying report; prompts probe of Navy vessels

Daily Press 02 Oct 2019

A former Newport News shipyard worker has admitted in federal court to falsifying weld inspection reports, actions that prompted an investigation of welds in eight submarines and an aircraft carrier. Joseph W. Powell, 29, Suffolk, faced a 12-count indictment in U.S. District Court that alleged ... ....

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Letters: Memories of union days from long ago

The Advocate 23 Sep 2019

My father, Greg Voutas, was a UAW union worker at General Motors’ assembly plant in Framingham, Massachusetts. It was a Buick Oldsmobile and Pontiac — plant built in 1946-47 as part of the post-WWII expansion ... In the late '40s, my father, who spent the war years welding in the Boston Navy Shipyard, went to work on GM’s assembly line ... Letters ... Metairie....

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When Medicaid Takes Everything You Own

The Atlantic 11 Sep 2019

Images above. Tawanda Rhodes believed she would inherit the home her parents had bought in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood in 1979. Then she received a letter from her state’s Medicaid program ... Joseph took a welding job at a shipyard and pressed laundry on the side; later, Edna would put her southern cooking skills to use in a school cafeteria ... ....

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Hundreds attend job fair held by Mississippi shipbuilder

Mississippi Business Journal 09 Sep 2019

A job fair at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Mississippi drew hundreds of people interested in the work. Ingalls Vice President of Operations George Jones called Saturday’s turnout tremendous. WLOX-TV reports that Jones says the Pascagoula shipyard is hiring mainly in pipe welding and pipe fitting positions at the moment ... BEFORE YOU GO ... ....

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Facing a raft of retirements, BIW seeks 1,000 new hires

The Brunswick Times Record 03 Sep 2019

The shipyard is in the midst of a massive hiring push to finish a backlog of ship work and reinforce its army of mechanics, many of whom are nearing retirement age ... The shipyard and Southern Maine Community College have also, with government grants, set up free welding and manufacturing certificate programs for unemployed and underemployed workers....

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Moro Corporation Subsidiary Whale City Iron Company Expands Product Offerings

The Record 27 Aug 2019

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 27, 2019--. Moro Corporation (NQB ... They are especially helpful during renovations that involve building upon aging wood ... In addition, Whale City Iron Company provides quickset highway patch to New England-based contractors as well as a variety of metalworking firms, welding shops, shipyards, and others ... CONTACT ... KEYWORD....

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CORRECTING and REPLACING Moro Corporation Subsidiary Whaling City Iron Co. Expands Product Offerings

The Marshall News Messenger 27 Aug 2019

WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 27, 2019--. Please note, throughout the release, all instances of Whale City Iron Company should read. Whaling City Iron Co. The corrected release reads. ... provides quickset highway patch to New England-based contractors as well as a variety of metalworking firms, welding shops, shipyards, and others ... CONTACT ... April White....

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Rosie the Riveter celebrated at Richmond festival

East Bay Times 11 Aug 2019

Nearby, Kaiser’s four shipyards built 747 ships. The war effort transformed Richmond almost overnight, with its population quadrupling between 1940 and 1943 as many southerners migrated to work in the city’s factories and shipyards ... While Connie Gomez welded in the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, Raymond Gomez was fighting in Europe....

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Casualty of trade war: Chinese investments in US grind to a halt, blocking new jobs

Finger Lakes Times 03 Jul 2019

COLUMBIA, S.C. - When a relatively unknown Chinese company called Jushi built a state-of-the-art fiberglass factory in the pine woods of South Carolina not long ago, it made a big splash ... Jushi, which means giant rock in Chinese, began production in May ... He had earned more at welding jobs in Charleston's shipyards, but the work wasn't steady ... ....

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College to offer welding program

The News Guard 19 Jun 2019

To kick start the program, the Port of Toledo will invest $87,096 in remodeling an existing space into a 12-bay welding training lab within the Toledo Shipyard’s Industrial Park ... The welding lab, adjacent to our shipyard, will provide students with practical shipyard welding experience.”....