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2. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers

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   On September 7, 2008, the union began a 57-day strike against Boeing over issues with outsourcing, job security, pay and benefits. [18] The union continues to expand into different companies today. In December 2013 the union's attempt to represent workers at an Amazon.com fulfillment center in Middletown, Delaware, failed. [19]

3. United States Army Corps of Engineers - Wikipedia

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   More than 90 percent of the USACE construction contracts have been awarded to Iraqi-owned businesses — offering employment opportunities, boosting the economy, providing jobs, and training, promoting stability and security where before there was none. Consequently, the mission is a central part of the U.S. exit strategy.

4. Machinist - Wikipedia

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   Some titles reflect further development of machinist skills such as tool and die maker, patternmaker, mold maker, programmer, and operator. A machinist is one who is called on to fix a problem with a part or to create a new one using metals, plastics, or rarely, wood. Depending on the company, a machinist can be any or all of the titles listed ...

5. Machining - Wikipedia

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   In production machining jobs, one or more roughing cuts are usually performed on the work, followed by one or two finishing cuts. Roughing operations are done at high feeds and depths – feeds of 0.4–1.25 mm/rev (0.015–0.050 in/rev) and depths of 2.5–20 mm (0.100–0.750 in) are typical, but actual values depend on the workpiece materials.

6. Manual labour - Wikipedia

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   Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand ) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the ...

7. Milling (machining) - Wikipedia

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   A machinist milling breech blocks for Sten guns, 1943. By 1940, automation via cams, such as in screw machines and automatic chuckers , had already been very well developed for decades. Beginning in the 1930s, ideas involving servomechanisms had been in the air, but it was especially during and immediately after World War II that they began to ...