Offshore

CHARLES CHUCK ADOLPH JANSKY HALLETTSVILLE - Charles "Chuck" Adolph Jansky, 75, of Hallettsville, passed away September 13, 2018 ... They shared 56 years together ... After Chuck's National Guard training, he went to work in Houston for 5 years for Mosher Steel Company as a welder. The next 32 years he worked offshore for Marine Drilling Co. & Pride Offshore as a welder. He spent time offshore fishing in his spare time ... Chuck is survived by....

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Union voices concern as Bombardier sells tubing division putting 70 more jobs at risk

Belfast Telegraph 01 Sep 2018

Trade union Unite said the decision to sell the tubing centre, which has a sister site in Mirabelle in Canada, was the "latest incident of offshoring and outsourcing impacting jobs in Northern Ireland" ... "This effective outsourcing of work done by fitters and welders in Belfast comes as the latest in a long line of offshoring and outsourcing of IT, finance and maintenance functions....

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Opinion: Saying goodbye to the Ste. Claire

Detroit news 17 Jul 2018

Claire. Ste. Claire was ravaged by fire on July 6, most of her upper structure destroyed. Her burned out hull remains opposite Belle Isle, where she has been stuck deep into a sandbar about 30 feet offshore from Riverside Marina for the past year and a half. This tragic fire was not the first caused by welders who were working on the ship, but sadly it destroyed what little remained of this once great vessel. The owner of Ste Claire, Dr....

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Local homelessness difficult to measure, combat

Houma Today 07 Mar 2018

Just two months ago, Joe Pollard was working offshore as a welder. Today he is jobless and spends much of his time standing near the Wal-Mart parking lot on Martin Luther King Jr ... “I’m trying to get ... ....

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NI employers less confident over staff levels due to border worries

Belfast Telegraph 12 Dec 2017

Uncertainty over the future of Northern Ireland's border with the Republic has made employers here more cautious about taking on staff, according to a survey today ... Firms in Northern Ireland told Manpower they were less likely to be taking on new staff ... Many skilled staff such as welders and fabricators were taking up opportunities on oil rigs. "The salaries offered offshore are difficult for local companies to compete with....

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Family of father, daughter found in Mid-City pool to hire private investigator, suspect 'foul play'

The Times Picayune 14 Jul 2017

A maintenance worker noticed a young child standing alone near the edge of a pool at a Mid-City hotel about 9 p.m. July 8. When the employee asked what he was doing, the boy said he was "waiting for his dad and sister to come back up out of the water." ... He had invited a small group of friends, maybe about a dozen, for a pool party that night, Williams said ... His plan was to go back to school and become an offshore welder. ....

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Lonnie Roland Langley, Sr.

The Galveston Daily News 25 Mar 2017

Lonnie Roland Langley, Sr., resident of Santa Fe, Texas passed away March 23, 2017, at home, surrounded by his family. He was born February 4, 1935 in Buckeye, Arizona to parents George W. Langley and Thelma L ... Lonnie was a high-performance motor sports mechanic specializing in speedboats and race cars and a journeyman welder. Lonnie had a passion for racing offshore speedboats, racecars and street cars and he always raced to win ... .......

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In Brazil, Another Shipyard Goes Bust as Work Goes to Asia

Topix 19 Jul 2016

A Rio de Janeiro shipyard, where suspended president Dilma Rousseff once promised to employ an army of welders, electricians and engineers to make offshore oil platforms, is all but shut. Every other day, 50 workers on average hand in their helmets and are sent home jobless, according to the yard's union ... ....

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