Now VOCM, Kathy Dunderdale, and Ed Martin want it all to go to Nova Scotia?

     

 For the link on what VOCM supports CLICK HERE

This is posted on top of the VOCM website today. I want to express that VOCM owned by NewCap is proudly supporting the bid by Irving for the multi-billion dollar federal contract for shipbuilding.

This is the same contract that Peter Kiewit and Sons pulled out of leaving Marystown without any hope of getting this work.

Please go the site that VOCM is supporting and read about the hopes and dreams of those in NS and NB in getting the work and being able to build a house and start a family in these provinces.

What is to become of Marystown and our people?

I have selected a few quotes below from the Nova Scotian website. For the full story CLICK HERE.

Workers hope ship comes in

Every week, Ryan Prendergast puts $10 into his lottery pool at the Halifax Shipyard. But these days, the 23-year-old sheet metal worker dreams of another big financial prize, one that could come from the federal government. “It means a secure job, a secure future. You can start a family, buy a house,” the Glace Bay native says of Ottawa’s $35-billion shipbuilding procurement plan.


Married and with a baby on the way in November, he has almost finished his apprenticeship after 3½ years at the yard. “It’s definitely important to a lot of people — younger people, anyway,” the Cape Bretoner says during a break in a lunchroom. Such a long-term contract would also benefit older workers, many of whom are set to retire in the next five years or so, Prendergast says.

About 700 tradespeople are working at the yard, 250 of them apprentices. In all, the Halifax Shipyard has roughly 1,000 people at its waterfront complex.

A single mother, Morris is anxious to land long-term work. Because she has a three-year-old daughter, she’d prefer not to leave the province to find it. With so much riding on the contract, it’s usually the topic of conversation in the lunchroom, Morris says.

“I could see us hiring another 1,000 workers over the period of the contract, at its peak,” says Risser, whose father, brother and an uncle work at the shipyard. “You could see us hit levels that we’ve never seen before.”


About half the yard’s hands are between the ages of 19 and 35 and would benefit the most from having 30 years of contracts waiting, Risser says.

Having read above - how do you feel about your future. While we are at it - how about Ed Martin, Kathy Dunderdale, and VOCM all get together and pump the Lower Churchill project with Emera. That way we can send our industry, power, and people to that province. 

Well done!