Potential Navy budget cuts loom large over shipbuilders

By artappraiser on Fri, 02/15/2013 - 12:27am |

By Wyatt Andrews,CBS News, Feb. 14, 2013

WASHINGTON -- The budget dispute in Washington is about to have a very real impact on the people who build and repair our military ships. The industry says 100,000 jobs are on the line because the Navy is planning to delay the repair of nearly two dozen ships. The official announcement is coming tomorrow.

Tens of thousands of workers -- just in the shipyards of Virginia -- are at risk of losing their jobs because of the budget cuts. One of them is Mike Patterson, a pipefitter at BAE systems. [.....]

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