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Fort Worth's Lockheed Martin Signs Inaugural Class Of Interns It’s Nurtured Since High School

By Bill Zeeble • Aug 13, 2018

It’s a very big day. Applause, cheers and deep thumping beats belie the athletic atmosphere.

This is no stadium, but a large, festive room on Lockheed Martin’s sprawling campus in Fort Worth. Dozens of students with hundreds of relatives and Lockheed employees are celebrating signing day.

Lockheed Martin To Add 400 More Fort Worth Workers In F-35 Hiring Binge

By Christopher Connelly • Jul 30, 2018

Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth factory has already added 1,800 workers in the past year. And on Monday, the aerospace giant held a hiring fair to add 400 more workers to its Fort Worth workforce.

The Maryland-based defense company needs the labor as it ramps up production of the F-35, its next-generation stealth fighter jet.

Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 Because Of Government Shutdown

By Shelley Kofler • Oct 4, 2013

Lockheed Martin, which builds the F-35 fighter jet in Fort Worth, says it will begin furloughing employees Monday because of the government shutdown. The biggest concern is the lack of inspectors needed to approve work performed in the manufacturing process.

White House: TX Children, Military Would Feel Federal Cuts

By Shelley Kofler • Feb 25, 2013

Texas agencies and programs that receive federal money are bracing for the automatic budget cuts that could begin Friday.

A White House analysis of how the so-called sequestration would affect each state indicates education, defense, and public health programs would be hit the hardest.

Veasey, Garcia Clash Over Building F-35 Plane

By Bill Zeeble • Jul 11, 2012

During last night’s KERA debate, Democrats running for Congress in District 33 disagreed over Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Air Force jet. It’s built in Fort Worth by thousands of workers. State Representative Marc Veasey from Fort Worth favors the fighter. Former Dallas State Representative Domingo Garcia has concerns.

Texas OKs Big Boost in Wholesale Electricity Rate

A state commission has approved a 50 percent increase in the wholesale electricity price cap in a move it hopes will spur construction of more power plants.

American To Make Its Case Against Union Contracts

Officials with American Airlines will try to convince a bankruptcy judge that labor agreements must be broken for the carrier to survive.

Leaders of the Fort Worth-based airline on Monday will be at a federal courthouse in New York to open what could be a two-month hearing.

Parent company AMR seeks to void its contracts with pilots, flight attendants and ground workers and impose its own terms.

The airline lost more than $10 billion in the decade leading up to its declaration of bankruptcy last November.