Posted on 07/06/2010 7:43:13 PM PDT by Willie Green
Houston-based United Space Alliance tolds its workforce of 8,100 that 15 percent of them would be laid off by October 1. Most of the cuts would be on the Space Coast where the company is contracted to work on the space shuttle program.
"The accomplishments of this team are unmatched in human spaceflight," said USA Company President Virginia Barnes in a press release,
She noted that the workforce has long known that its jobs were coming to an end, "but layoffs are always difficult for everyone involved."
The company is first asking workers to agree to voluntary severance. The other cuts will be made after that initial number is determined in August, according to Patty Stratton, an Associate Program Manager with Ground Operations in Florida.
USA is expected to cut 800-1,000 Florida employees, about 300-400 in Texas and about ten in Alabama.
Laid off workers will get a compensation package and help in landing a new job.
The shuttle contract was the largest for USA, which doesn't see any similiar work coming from the space agency in the near future. It will turn it's focus to military contracts, according to Stratton.
USA is equally owned by Boeing and Lookheed Martin.
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Great, more fodder for Nancy Pelosi’s job creation machine.
Are they cutting the fat? This is a good thing if they are making a smaller effective force. Conservatives are normally for smaller government and this is one area that is starting. Now if only they can cut the fat of the IRS that would be great. Perhaps that is the next department to cut...not holding my breath.
It was a great country while it lasted.
NASA will probably keep em around to clean the Islamic prayer rugs in Mission Control.
We are broke. Shut this PC party down. They sent everything into space but a cripple and a witch doctor. BS!!
More evidence that Obama doesn’t have a clue how the economy works. He lays off people from jobs that have been around for 30 years, and uses the money to create temporary jobs that don’t produce anything and were invented only because he’s got unemployed people to put to work. He doesn’t seem to understand that when the government lays off people, there is a period of time after the layoffs when those people are unemployed. Destroying jobs and creating new ones to replace them is not a zero sum exercise.
John Glenn part 2 was pretty close. I forget what Clinton corruption Glenn covered up but that was part of the deal.
NASA is a joke now but people voted for it.
John Glenn part 2 was pretty close. I forget what Clinton corruption Glenn covered up but that was part of the deal.
NASA is a joke now but people voted for it.
Working for Amtrak is damn sure not useful.
OF course they are cutting shuttle force... with a mission change from space exploration and utilization to “improving the US’s relations with Islam” (according to the NASA chief)...
It's a shame to see talented, proficient people lose their jobs, though.
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I totally agree. I think it Clinton selling technology to China for campaign cash and or the phony war in the Balkans which helped Bin Lander (KLA drug dealing).
A shame but a lot voted for their space boy and astronaut Democrat Bill Nelson.
“The accomplishments of this team are unmatched in human spaceflight,”
... and 15% of you are fired.
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