Bath Iron Works Starts Layoffs Amid Strike, Admits Production 'Well Below' Typical

摘要

General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works [GD] (BIW) president Dirk Lesko announced layoffs and production staying below typical operations due to the continued strike by Local S6 of the Machinists Union. In a July 7 message to employees, Lesko said since the strike began, BIW has taken steps to continue critical production tasks like redeploying hundreds of salaried employees into the shipyard while working with contractors to procure more workers during the strike. "However, all of these efforts still leave our production levels well below typical operations and even further below where we need to be. As a result, some functions that directly support production are beginning to run out of work to do," Lesko said. While the company explored options to reassign impacted employees to other jobs, since they are not available BIW this week is starting temporary layoffs for Surveyors and Trades Inspectors affected, with members in the separate Local S7 union. Layoffs will proceed in accordance with the Local S7's collective bargaining agreement with the company.