Vigor marine6/18/2023 ![]() Specialty Finishes and its Specialty Marine Decking unit provide industrial coating and marine decking services.Vigor Machine offers turbine and machining services from its facility in Portland, OR as well as on-site at customers' locations.Vigor Shipyards handles maintenance for the Navy and Coast Guard in Seattle, Everett, and Bremerton, WA.Washington Marine Repair provides resources for topside repair in Port Angeles, Washington.Vigor Marine specializes in commercial ship repair in Portland, OR, and Seattle, Tacoma and Everett, WA with the ability to mobilize teams to anywhere they are needed, including Hawaii. ![]() Vigor Alaska or provides new-build, heavy fabrication, ship repair, and maintenance services in Ketchikan, Alaska.Vigor Fab is Vigor's Pacific Northwest new-build subsidiary serving the needs of maritime customers from its facilities in Portland, OR, and Seattle and Everett, WA. ![]() Vigor Industrial has several subsidiary companies which each focus on different specialties: In July 2019, The Carlyle Group and Stellex Capital Management agreed to acquire and merge Vigor Industrial with MHI Holdings LLC. The company selected Vancouver, Washington as the production site for the vessels. Army landing craft, the largest contract in its history. Vigor announced in late 2017 that it had won a $1 billion contract to produce U.S. ![]() In March 2015, Vigor Industrial acquired Seattle-based aluminum workboat manufacturer Kvichak Marine Industries. Although both companies referred to it as a "merger", the deal made Oregon Iron Works a division of Vigor, a wholly owned subsidiary. In May 2014, the company announced that it was merging with Oregon Iron Works, another manufacturer based in the Portland area. In 2012 they acquired Alaska Ship & Drydock in Ketchikan, Alaska. In 2011 they purchased Todd Pacific's operations in Seattle, Bremerton, and Everett. In 2010, purchased Marine Industries Northwest (MINI) in Tacoma, WA. In 2002, Vigor Industrial expanded operations to Port Angeles, WA with its subsidiary Washington Marine Repair. With funding from the then-publicly traded Cammell Laird PLC in the UK, Transamerica Capital and Heller Capital, the Swan Island facility was purchased from the port in 2000 and the name Vigor Industrial was established. In 1995, Vigor Industrial owner, Frank Foti bought Cascade General on the verge of bankruptcy from its previous owners, operating on leased space from the Port of Portland shipyard. In 1942 the Swan Island facility in Portland began operations as Kaiser Shipyards. In 1916 the Harbor Island facility in Seattle began operations as Todd Pacific Shipyards. In the Northwest the company history goes back nearly 100 years, with Todd Pacific in Washington and Kaiser Shipyard in Oregon. Based in Portland, Oregon, the company consists of several subsidiary companies for a combined total of seven facilities with ten drydocks, more than 17,000 feet of pier space, and over 2,000 employees. Ballots will be counted June 29.Vigor Industrial ( Vigor) is an American shipbuilding, shiprepair, and industrial service provider in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Sheet Metal Workers Local 23, based in Anchorage, on May 9 filed to represent 66 ship construction and repair workers. In other Vigor Marine news, the company’s non-union location in Ketchikan has a union drive underway. Some workers are being sent to Vigor locations in Seattle and Ketchikan, Alaska, where there’s more work. The National Labor Relations Board has not yet set an election date.īusiness is slow at the shipyard right now, Oldham said, with some workers saying the yard is at an all-time low for workload. Painters Local 10 filed the election petition June 3. Specialty Finishes workers make $22 to $27 an hour, and union painters at Vigor make between $28 and $36, Oldham said. Ratified in April, the new Vigor contract brought a $1.25 per hour raise immediately, another $1.30 increase on December 1 and a $1.40 raise on December 1, 2023. That contributed to their union interest. Scott Oldham, business agent for Local 10, said the Specialty Finishes workers were aware of the large wage increases that union painters got in their recently renegotiated Metal Trades agreement with Vigor Marine. The workers do ship repair painting work, and frequently work alongside union painters represented by the Metal Trades Department. The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades has asked for a union election to represent 12 painters employed by Specialty Finishes, located at Portland’s Vigor Marine shipyard. Painters at Specialty Finishes work alongside Metal Trades Department-represented trade workers at Vigor Marine.
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