https://clucerf-archive.callutheran.edu/2010/07/13/300-jobs-lost-forever/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:43:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 https://clucerf-archive.callutheran.edu/2010/07/13/300-jobs-lost-forever/#comment-485 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:30:28 +0000 http://www.clucerf.org/blog/?p=563#comment-485 According to the article, this is the last shipyard on the West Coast. I think a lot of these skills are very specialized. NASSCO surely retains the ability to repair the Pacific Fleet. The question is will they ever build as many ships as they had the capacity to build before the layoffs. My answer, probably not.

]]> https://clucerf-archive.callutheran.edu/2010/07/13/300-jobs-lost-forever/#comment-484 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:31:56 +0000 http://www.clucerf.org/blog/?p=563#comment-484 I think the infrastructure analogy here is a bit off. Although losing skilled workers like these is rough, if NASSCO wants to expand in the future, are there other Navy Shipyards on the West Coast for them to expand at? You can’t really substitute laborers in Virginia for ones in San Diego if you’re trying to repair the Pacific Fleet.

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