Like many European and US shipyards, Harland and Wolff seem to have been slow and incomplete in adopting new, efficient modular production methods first developed by Asian shipbuilders. In addition, unions insisted on obsolete work rules that ran up costs.
Subsidized by their governments.
In addition, unions insisted on obsolete work rules that ran up costs.
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In addition, unions insisted on obsolete work rules that ran up costs.
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While aboard in LST I was home ported in Yokosuka Japan from 1960-62 and all Maintainance and repairs were done in Japanese Shipyards.
Used to be funny when the yard changed a light bulb, 1 would carry it in, another would screw it in, another take the old one away etc etc.
The ‘explanation’ was ‘WE’ couldn’t allow NON UNION work on USN ships outside of UNION yards because it was taking work out of US Yards....so apparently we had to pay the Japanese yard workers on an equal scale BUT it would have ruined the Japanese economy if the US was paying 20 per hour (or whatever union rate was) and really couldn’t be paying JNs that rate so it had to be split up so the pay was the same per hour.. So if changing a light bulb was considered to cost say 30 bucks one JN couldn’t get 10+ yen, so it had to be split 5 or 6 ways.
Or something along that line...