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June 22, 2009

Funds help BIW find more work

By The Mainebiz News Staff

Congress on Thursday passed a $106 billion war appropriations bill that includes funding that will allow Bath Iron Works to put some of its employees back to work.

The appropriations bill allocates $165 million for emergency ship repair. As a result, about 30 BIW welders have been hired as subcontractors to work on the USS Port Royal, currently under repair at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, according to the Portland Press Herald. BIW spokesman Jim DeMartini said the project's total employment of BIW workers won't be known until the Navy allocates the funding. Two other ships are also slated to receive funding for repair.

Additional work is good news for the shipyard, which on Thursday announced 41 layoffs, the third round of layoffs the shipyard has announced this month due to a gap in work. Layoffs so far total 166.

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