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Lockheed veche pochnaha da puskat kepenzite - osvobozdavat ot rabota 300 dushi koito rabotiat na proizvodstvenata linia na F16, shtoto kakvoto i da trubiat navun u doma si im e iasno nakude biat neshtata.
Ako niakoi ima nuzda ot prevod da svirka.
Ei tva e gorchivata istina, koloto i da ne im haresva na niakoi:
Posted on Tue, Nov. 15, 2005
Lockheed to lay off 300 on F-16 line
By BARRY SHLACHTER
STAR-TELEGRAM STAFF WRITER
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics said Monday that it will lay off about 300 Fort Worth production employees from the F-16 fighter jet line Jan. 16 because of declining orders and deliveries.
More downsizing is expected later in 2006, a spokesman said.
Next year will be the third straight year of reductions on the F-16 line for the defense contractor, which announced in August that it will have cut 950 positions by the end of 2005. Employment at the sprawling facility will be about 15,100 at year's end, including about 4,000 assigned to F-16 production, spokesman Joe Stout said.
"Unfortunately, the reductions will continue next year as the production level stabilizes at a lower rate," Stout said. "We will be continuing to hire in other parts of the business. In a company this large, there's always an ebb and flow in what your staffing requirements are."
He said it's too early to say whether there will be a net reduction for the Fort Worth plant in 2006, he said. In keeping with its Machinists union contract, the January layoffs will be based on seniority.
"People were kind of expecting layoffs to occur," said Pat Lane, president of the local unit of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. "It really wasn't any surprising news, but we hate to see these good employees, good members go. We will work really hard to transition them to other employment in Dallas-Fort Worth, hopefully in equivalent work. The last folks that went out picked up something."
Lane, who has been president of the local since 1978, said he didn't know what 2006 will bring, but said, "Hopefully, new [Lockheed] programs will work out so that everyone can maintain a job next year."
Opportunities to work on other projects, such as the midfuselage for the F/A-22 fighter and the F-35, will be based on individual workers' job skills, Stout said.
The recent earthquake in Pakistan, which prompted that nation's leadership to postpone a plan to buy F-16s, was not a factor in the latest round of layoffs, he said.
"If we had gotten the order from Pakistan, it would have been some time before we'd be working on those airplanes," Stout said.
The plant is expected to assemble F-16s through 2008, and that could be extended a few more years if new orders for the versatile aircraft are received, Stout said. Lockheed currently builds six to eight F-16s a month, down from 25 during the peak of production in the late 1980s.
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