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Saturday, May 28, 2011
House vote boosts GE engine program
A top River Works union negotiator said a pro-General Electric vote in Congress this week is proof the company's plan to continue competing for Joint Strike Fighter engine work is paying off.
International Union of Electric Workers 201 Business Agent Ric Casilli said the U.S. House authorization vote keeps alive a plan, proposed by General Electric executives to the Defense Department in April, to allow the firm to continue developing a Joint Strike engine with the research and other work paid for by GE.
"I think Congress saw that and said, 'Hey, they're putting in their own money,'" Casilli said on Friday. He added, "I think they woke up and said, 'This is what competition does.'"
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