BIW eliminating 160 positions
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Bath Iron Works announced that it will be cutting a combined 160 jobs as part of cost-cutting efforts.
Officials at Bath Iron Works say that 160 jobs will be eliminated as part of ongoing cost-cutting efforts, not from the recent failure to secure a $11 billion U.S. Coast Guard cutter contract.
BIW announced on Friday that it plans to immediately lay off 30 workers and eliminate an additional 130 positions over time, according to Maine Public. The shipbuilder said the layoffs are from its engineering and support organizations.
Rich Nolan, president of the Machinists' union Local S6, told Maine Public that those cuts are salaried positions and that "It will not affect any members of Local S6."
The specter of layoffs has loomed over BIW following the news that Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. of Panama City, Fla., was awarded a multibillion Coast Guard contract that BIW officials earlier had said would have helped avoid laying off roughly 35%, or 1,200 shipbuilders, if the Bath shipyard had won the contract.
Editor’s Note: The 160 job eliminations are a combination of 30 layoffs and 130 reductions through retirements, transfers, resignations and cancelled job postings.
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