[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant, Dallas, TX

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UAW rallies against Triumph plant's sale, downsizing

by Matt Joyce
Dallas Business Journal
August 21, 2012

Hundreds of Triumph Aerostructures-Vought Aircraft Division employees  
rallied Tuesday to express their concern that the potential sale of  
the Triumph plant in Dallas could result in the plant's closure.

Dallas-based American Brownfield Corp. is buying the 315-acre  
property on Jefferson Street from the U.S. Navy, which has owned it  
for decades. Triumph Aerostructures employs about 2,400 people at the  
facility, which assembles aircraft parts.

...

Triumph Group acquired the facility in June 2010, the latest owner in  
a long line of aerospace manufacturers to rent the facility from the  
government. The facility first opened in 1940 as the Naval Weapons  
Industrial Reserve Plant, according to Triumph.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/08/21/uaw-rallies-against- 
triumph-plants.html?page=all

--

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org