Employment News
Builder Of Oil Tankers To Drop Workers In Philly
By eric | Dated: 06-25-2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer: Due to a lack in new orders for ships, Aker Philadelphia Shipyard will be letting go of an as yet undisclosed number of workers. The company currently employs more than 1,000.With only three tankers currently under construction, Aker has some work, but not enough to keep its entire staff on the payroll. The last ship of the three is scheduled for a 2012 completion date.
Aker CEO Jim Miller blames his company’s woes on tight credit, the lack of demand for oil tankers, and a precipitous decline in demand for petroleum products, not to mention the near shut down of much of the country’s off-shore drilling.
According to one union official interviewed for the piece, the contract in place between Aker and the Philadelphia Metal Trades Council requires that all subcontractor employees, some 500 of them, must be laid off before the full time shipyard employees.
Career Connect (From our other career blogs):
- Employment News (Sponsored by EmploymentSpectator)
- Following Your Passion-Literally! (Sponsored by iamnotastalker.com)
- Job Search Advice from the CEO of TravelingCrossing (Sponsored by aharrisonbarnes.com)
- Layoff News (Sponsored by LayOffWatch)
Testimonial of the Week
The number of jobs listed on EmploymentCrossing is great. I appreciate the efforts that are taken to ensure the accuracy and validity of all jobs.
- Richard S Baltimore, MD
Sign Up now
Only TravelingCrossing consolidates every job it can find in the domain and puts all of the job listings it locates in one place.
- We have more jobs than any other job board.
- We list jobs you will not find elsewhere that are hidden in small regional publications and employer websites
- We collect jobs from more than 4,429,376 websites and post them on our site.
- We are private, and therefore far fewer people are applying for the jobs on our site than are applying for those on public job boards.
