Jobs looking up for this area

[John Jones]

A Airbus assembly plant and Austal's government contracts plus all the businesses to support these two companies.

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/06/airbus_working.html

http://blog.al.com/press-register-busin ... he_fa.html

http://blog.al.com/press-register-busin ... e_con.html

http://blog.al.com/press-register-busin ... int_h.html

[John Jones]

That LCS is a weird looking ship.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Indepe ... 28LCS-2%29

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&saf ... 8gTioojgBw

[wingtime]

Thats good news!   Airbus assembled here?  has to be better than the French labor laws! LOL


But I have mixed feelings... those are foreign companies...  so the profits, tech and etc go overseas.

[John Jones]

I know.  The ship builder is Australian.  Austal came in and bought up a bunch of  the little mom & pop 100 year old dying shipyards with very little work and few workers and are now shooting for 4500 employees.  No one around here is complaining.

There are already several hi-tech air craft related companies at Brookley Field (former AFB).  BF Goodrich has an aircraft parts plant on this side of the bay.

[dburr]

Don't lose sight boys of the fact that even though the money from the front office may go overseas, there is a big pool of highly skilled and trained ship builders there that now have an opportunity for employment and to move around if the pay is better, and the wages stay local.  Just a shame the home office isn't US..

 In a previous life ('95, just released from USN) it was Alabama ship building and National in Mobile, then next closest was Ingals in Ms then a few small yards in Bayou Labatre.. The only one that was interested in hiring was Patti's in Pensacola ($6.50/hr ) it would have been more profitable to get unemployment but I wasn't raised that way..

 

[John Jones]

 In a previous life ('95, just released from USN) it was Alabama ship building and National in Mobile, then next closest was Ingals in Ms then a few small yards in Bayou Labatre..

In a waay previous life, '76, just out of the Air Force, it was Alabama Drydocks & Shipbuilding.   I worked there for about 3 weeks as 2nd class electrician.  In July in South Alabama inside a black painted steel oil pipe laying rig it was the hottest I have ever been in my life.  I got a job offer from an iron foundry and I left so fast I left my tools in the gang box at the shipyard.  The foundry was much cooler.