Monday was a bad day for almost 100 Electric Boat carpenters who learned they would lose their jobs at the Groton shipyard in December.
Robert Hamilton, the company’s director of communications, told the Day of New London that the positions were likely being eliminated “because the nature of the work has changed.”
They have helped put the coating on the outside of the submarine, but now the coating is applied at the company’s plant at Quonset Point and ships arrive in Groton with the hull coating intact, the newspaper reports.
Half of the carpenters affected were hired in the past year to meet short-term demands for modernization and construction work, the Day reports.
The jobs will end Dec. 4.
