KANSAS CITY PLANT STRIKE DID NOT IMPACT OUTPUT, HONEYWELL SAYS

The six-week long production strike at the Kansas City Plant did not impact the plant’s ability to deliver product for the National Nuclear Security Administration, and contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies did not have to dip into the reserve of non-nuclear weapons parts it has stockpiled for its move to a new facility over the next four years. Honeywell spokeswoman Linda Cook said the plant made 1,110 shipments during the six-week strike, which is roughly on par with the plant’s average of 920 deliverables a month. Engineers at the plant that were not part of the 860 International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers Local 778 that walked off the job Oct. 9 filled in for the production workers during the strike, which ended Sunday when the union accepted a contract offer. “We were prepared. We had a plan,” Honeywell FM&T President Chris Gentile told NW&M Monitor. “The fact is we had a plan for a number of months and we committed to NNSA and others that we will not miss a delivery. Subsequent to the strike we really went into high gear to put in a plan that we would never miss a shipment ever.”