HII CEO talks bolstering workforce, fighting back against delays

By Abby Shepherd / May 30, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Labor is shipbuilder HII’s “biggest risk,” CEO Chris Kastner said Wednesday, and the company is implementing several programs and incentives to mitigate this -- amid a decline in the company’s workforce following the COVID-19 pandemic. “Retention is still a challenge mostly in this new workforce that we get, keeping them. So that's our major risk going forward, but we're actually in a a pretty good place from a demand standpoint, I'd much rather be in this place than the alternative,...

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