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Posted by pragmatist on Sat Jul 26 18:22:13 2014, in response to Re: R-179 car test train delay... Welding issue, posted by VictorM on Sat Jul 26 13:26:16 2014. There has been a shortage of top shelf welders in the area for a while. Stainless Steel is somewhat more difficult than regular to work with. CAF has experienced it, so has NovaBus (also in Plattsburgh)As manufacturing jobs were exported, there has been a de-emphasis in training new machinists, welders, and similar skilled trades, thinking everyone would become a(n) (empty) suit. Many of the skilled welders left the Northeast for the boom in the oil fields. The Buy American provisions for certain Federal programs, and the points in NYS Agency procurements given for NY content change the equation, and more car shells are being fabricated here. |
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