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...Powers yesterday rejected that notion, saying the structural jobs the University now plans to subcontract are "a completely different problem" than other maintenance work. While other maintenance work is speed throughout the year, the jobs in question are primarily outside repair tanks clustered in the warm weather months, he explained...
...crunch will be most acute for the small manufacturers who supply major contractors. Hans Weiss of Manchester, Conn., whose Dynamic Metal Products Co. welds machined engine parts for the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon jet fighters, has a two-year backlog of orders. He warns, "If subcontract work on the B-1 bomber comes here, we just won't be able to take it on." Apex Machine Tool Co. in nearby Farmington, Conn., which makes fixtures and gauges for giant lathes and milling machines used in aircraft production, is already running at 100% capacity. Says President...
...workers said they gave in because many believed they could not attempt another strike, while others feared reprisals from the University--such as a decision to subcontract out the work to non-union laborers. The lithographers, photo-engravers and bookbinders who make up the union have struck Harvard twice in the past seven years over wage increases...
...Force colonel at the Pentagon wisecracked that the U.S. might eventually have to "charter an air force from Pan Am." Better yet, said another, in case of conflict "we could subcontract the whole war." Still others joked bitterly about how the service had suffered "its highest attrition rate ever on a single...
...problem was sloppy welding and shoddy inspection-and apparently attempts to cover them up-in a 144-mile stretch of the pipeline between the Yukon River and a point south of Fairbanks. Ketchbaw Industries, a Houston firm, had a subcontract to perform X-ray tests of the welding; those tests had been required to reduce chances of a serious oil spill. Last year a Ketchbaw employee charged that there had been falsification of some tests. The pipeline consortium investigated the charges, decided that they had substance, and brought a suit against Ketchbaw. Ketchbaw denies falsification and has filed a countersuit...