If Rosie the Riveter was real, she may have been furloughed by the federal government shutdown that entered its second week Tuesday and started impacting the private sector, including a Sonoma riveting company.
Fastening Systems International, which makes the rivets that hold together America’s military machinery, is one of dozens of North Coast contractors that are starting to feel the pinch of the gridlock in Washington.
Rosie, the iconic embodiment of the American can-do spirit in the 1940s, would have been ill-equipped to work through the modern day shutdown, said company president Roger Nikkel. (…)
via Local contractors pinched by government shutdown | The Press Democrat.