Word: machinist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machinist at the Ursus tractor factory, twelve miles outside Warsaw. Although both have joined Solidarity, they could not be regarded as dissidents or malcontents. Says Krzysztof: "One shouldn't complain too much. I enjoy my work." Maria points out that a decade ago they were far worse off, living in a single attic room that they had obtained only by agreeing to care for their elderly landlady. Since then, Maria has gone to work to supplement the family income, which now totals 15,000 zloty a month ($500). The factory helped them get a three-room apartment on Ursus...
...Ultimately," predicts Harley Shaiken, a former Detroit assembly-line machinist who now works as an industrial consultant at M.I.T., "retraining will not be possible, because there will...
Typical of the suddenly idle worker of 1980 is Wilson Painter Jr., 31, a Pennsylvania apprentice machinist who was let go by U.S. Steel in May. A big-boned man with the look of a football guard, Painter tries not to dwell on the future. Instead, he spends his empty hours playing with his two children, helping his wife Kathy around the house, or ritualistically unpacking and cleaning the precision calipers, gauges and scales that lie neatly slotted in his tool chest. Painter was halfway through a program to become a journeyman machinist when he was laid off. Those tools...
...Navy's problem may be the most severe of all: it is short 21,000 experienced petty officers. In particular, the Navy needs good men for key supervisory jobs, such as boiler technician, machinist's mate and aviation bosun's mate. Notes a senior Navy official: "We're hurting for the kind of people we need most: aviators and nuclear-trained officers. They're bright and have had rigorous training. The civilian nuclear industry just gobbles them up, along with other engineering types, as fast as we can manufacture them." Example: last year the Navy had 138 nuclear-qualified petty...