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Presented by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Earthjustice
With Daniel Lippman
Denise Mousouris is leaving Rep.
Cheri Bustos’ office, where she was finance director for the former DCCC chair, to become a principal at
Kountoupes, Denham, Carr & Reid.
Alaina OâBerry knew sheâd done well for her age.
The day after graduating high school, the Chesterfield resident got a job making airplane engine parts at a Rolls Royce factory in Virginia for $18 an hour. By 22, she had an associateâs degree and planned to apply for higher-skilled positions paying up to $40 an hour.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Many people stopped flying. Airlines ordered fewer planes. And manufacturers ordered fewer engines for which OâBerry produced turbine blades.
OâBerry was laid off in July with more than 100 coworkers at the plant in Prince George, which is about 40 miles south of Richmond. In August, the Britain-based company said the facility would close permanently by the middle of 2021 after employing about 400 people at its peak.
Alaina O’Berry knew she’d done well for her age.
The day after graduating high school, she got a job making airplane engine parts at a Rolls Royce factory in Virginia for $18 an hour. By 22, she had an associate’s degree and planned to apply for higher-skilled positions paying up to $40 an hour.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit. Many people stopped flying. Airlines ordered fewer planes. And manufacturers ordered fewer engines for which O’Berry produced turbine blades.
O’Berry was laid off in July with more than 100 coworkers at the plant in Prince George, which is about 40 miles (about 64 kilometers) south of Richmond. In August, the Britain-based company said the facility would close permanently by the middle of 2021 after employing about 400 people at its peak.
But I did quickly see that Rolls Royce was the best thing around, she said.
Before the pandemic, jobs in civilian airplane manufacturing were already disappearing. That s because Boeing s 737 Max planes had been grounded after two deadly crashes, impacting the supply chain.
For example, Spirit AeroSystems, which produced the Max s fuselage and other parts, said in January that it would eliminate 2,800 jobs in Wichita, Kansas.
The pandemic made the situation far worse. Boeing, for instance, said it will have 30,000 fewer workers by the end of next year through job cuts, retirements and other employee departures. The Chicago-based company has airplane assembly plants near Seattle and in South Carolina.
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