Pratt & Whitney has decided to move about 1,000 of its 11,000-person jet engine workforce in Connecticut to Columbus, Ga., Japan, and Singapore, according to am Associated Press report. The move primarily results from failed negotiations with the machinists union and affects 800 jobs at the plant in Chesire, Conn., which makes the F117 engine for USAF’s C-17 airlifter, according to a report by the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer. P&W plans to close the Chesire facility by 2011. It also plans to shutter an airfoil repair facility, eliminating another 200 jobs in Connecticut. The good news for Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who has fought to preserve P&W’s F135 as the sole engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is that there’s no mention of cuts to the F135 plant in Middletown.
Dick Cheney’s Legacy with the Air Force
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Dick Cheney, who died Nov. 3 at 84, is best remembered by most Americans as among the most powerful Vice Presidents in history, a consummate Washington insider who had previously served in the Nixon administration, was Chief of Staff for President Gerald Ford, a Congressman for a decade, and Secretary…
