{"id":23689,"date":"2023-09-28T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23689"},"modified":"2023-10-04T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T14:01:47","slug":"the-shipping-and-other-news-the-maine-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-shipping-and-other-news-the-maine-100\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maine 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23fbfbfb&amp;d=_oct23_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=26&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The Maine 100: statewide businesses are feeling the fair winds and following seas.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Data compiled by Miles Berry<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Maine&#8217;s legendary shipbuilding giant <strong>Bath Iron Works<\/strong> has been a winner in two ways this<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">year. According to <i>Navy Times<\/i>, they\u2019ve been awarded a big defense contract to build three Arleigh Burke Class destroyers. There\u2019s more news: According to the <i>Washington Post,<\/i> BIW has won \u201coverwhelming approval\u201d from the shipbuilders\u2019 union for a three-year contract that &#8220;raises pay a range of 2.6 percent to 9.6 percent in the first year with differences due to a mid-contract wage adjustment that already took effect for some workers, and will be followed by a 5 percent increase in the second year and a 4 percent increase in the third.\u201d What a lift!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Though Bath Iron Works is owned by Virginia-based General Dynamics, so they can&#8217;t be included in our list of firms in <strong>The Maine 100<\/strong><\/span><strong><span class=\"s2\"><sup>TM<\/sup><\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\">, which requires a company to be headquartered in Maine for inclusion, their Maine address does more than just stir memories.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ShippingNews_1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ShippingNews_1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ShippingNews_1024x536-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/ShippingNews_1024x536-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statewide businesses are feeling the fair winds and following seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1288],"class_list":["post-23689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-october-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23786,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23689\/revisions\/23786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}