US senators introduce bill on leveraging trusted allies' shipyards to build naval vessels
Posted: 27th February 2025
This won’t go over well with American workers…out sourcing some of the ship building jobs.
Could be an anti-union ploy by the US to cut costs hoping for cheaper labor overseas
Most of US shipbuilding are union jobs.
Bruce
On 2/26/2025 7:24 AM, ‘Lisa Savage’ via GN List serve: Keep Space4Peace wrote:
Hi Sung-Hee,
It looks like this bill is still stuck in committee aka tabled: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4531/committees
Here is an interesting bit of info I saw yesterday about one of the big shipyards near us in Maine (on the border with the state of New Hampshire). This is indicative of the cuts and freezes on federal spending of all kinds under the new administration in Washington:
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On Tuesday, February 25th, 2025 at 8:37 PM, Sung-Hee Choi <[email protected]> wrote:
Do you know how the bills mentioned in the article are going on? South Korea is mentioned as the top candidate to build the US warships in its soli. Could it be Jeju? I wonder… Sunghee
US senators introduce bill on leveraging trusted allies’ shipyards to build naval vessels
” On Wednesday last week (* Feb. 5th), Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) tabled the “Ensuring Naval Readiness Act” to enable the Navy to construct a vessel or a major component of the hull or superstructure in a shipyard located in a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member state or an Indo-Pacific treaty ally.
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Hopes for shipbuilding cooperation between Korea and the United States rose recently as President Donald Trump mentioned his intent to work with Korea in the shipbuilding industry during a call with President Yoon Suk Yeol in November.
During a radio interview last month, Trump also said that the U.S. may use allies in its efforts to build naval vessels.”
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