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Episode 2930: Mayor Reeves address ST layoffs
On Monday, we talked with Grace McCaffery about ST Aerospace laying off the Chilean workers. This morning, we heard that the company is working with them.
Mayor D.C. Reeves discussed the issue on "Real News with Rick Outzen" this morning.
"First of all, look, I don't care and what occupation, we don't want people who live in the city to lose their jobs for any circumstance," he said. "I appreciate Grace coming on Thursday and discussing these things and to be advocate for people... That said, and as she acknowledged Thursday as well, it's difficult to comment on the circumstances of the HR department of a private company, and certainly the city does not."
The mayor said the use of foreign workers at the airport MRO demonstrates the importance of the Pensacola State College training program and its A&P academy. "At the end of the day, we're in dire need of finding talent and it's why you can't go to anything ST-related or airport-related without me saying, you've heard me say it Rick five times at least, how vital I believe that school to be."
He added, "The goal here is to improve the quality of life for families in this city. And I know that's ST''s goal and certainly certainly ours, but at the end of the day, you have an operation to run."
ST Aerospace must find a way to service the UPS planes on the tarmac. "To be fair, wherever those jobs are coming from, I don't know that it helps the community to say, 'Well, we're going to not work. We're going to work on less planes now until we have these jobs filled by Americans.' "
He believes that the hiring of aviation mechanics from Chili and possibly other countries was a "necessity based on trying to find talent."
"I think we're all on the same wavelength here," Mayor Reeves said. " This project came here and was incentivized to come here to help create opportunity for people in the City of Pensacola. So again, I can't speak to what their HR strategy is or what they're doing in terms of hiring and onboarding and offboarding.But, I think overall, mission-wise, we all want the same thing."
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On Monday, we talked with Grace McCaffery about ST Aerospace laying off the Chilean workers. This morning, we heard that the company is working with them.
Mayor D.C. Reeves discussed the issue on "Real News with Rick Outzen" this morning.
"First of all, look, I don't care and what occupation, we don't want people who live in the city to lose their jobs for any circumstance," he said. "I appreciate Grace coming on Thursday and discussing these things and to be advocate for people... That said, and as she acknowledged Thursday as well, it's difficult to comment on the circumstances of the HR department of a private company, and certainly the city does not."
The mayor said the use of foreign workers at the airport MRO demonstrates the importance of the Pensacola State College training program and its A&P academy. "At the end of the day, we're in dire need of finding talent and it's why you can't go to anything ST-related or airport-related without me saying, you've heard me say it Rick five times at least, how vital I believe that school to be."
He added, "The goal here is to improve the quality of life for families in this city. And I know that's ST''s goal and certainly certainly ours, but at the end of the day, you have an operation to run."
ST Aerospace must find a way to service the UPS planes on the tarmac. "To be fair, wherever those jobs are coming from, I don't know that it helps the community to say, 'Well, we're going to not work. We're going to work on less planes now until we have these jobs filled by Americans.' "
He believes that the hiring of aviation mechanics from Chili and possibly other countries was a "necessity based on trying to find talent."
"I think we're all on the same wavelength here," Mayor Reeves said. " This project came here and was incentivized to come here to help create opportunity for people in the City of Pensacola. So again, I can't speak to what their HR strategy is or what they're doing in terms of hiring and onboarding and offboarding.But, I think overall, mission-wise, we all want the same thing."