Intel Corporation has announced an alliance with other high tech companies including Dell to increase the hiring of new college graduates in the tech field this year. Dell is one of Intel’s top customers. The Invest in America Alliance wants to bolster the United States competitiveness in technology including clean technology, information technology and biotechnology. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 14, 2009
General Electric is bringing 400 jobs from China to its Appliance Park in Louisville, Kentucky. The Appliance Park facility will being producing GE’s newest line of smart washers and dryers. Earlier this year GE added 400 jobs in the same location to build new energy efficient water heaters. The washing machines will [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 28, 2009
A General Electric plant in Bloomington, Indiana will not close down as feared. But some of the plant’s 680 employees will lose their jobs. Federal tax credits will keep the facility open, to manufacture energy-efficient refrigerators. The plant will stay open at least into 2010. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 2249, which represents the employees, is [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 28, 2009
General Electric will build a research center in Van Buren Township, Michigan, creating over 1,100 jobs. The Advanced Manufacturing & Software Technology Center will employ engineers and scientists in Michigan who were laid off by the auto industry. GE will invest $100 million in the site, and receive $60 million in state incentives. The General Electric Company, or [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 1, 2009
General Electric will add 400 jobs at its appliance division in Louisville, Kentucky, by 2011. The company received $17 million in incentives from state and local governments, and roughly $3 million from federal stimulus funds, for the $69 million project. GE will manufacture its new water heaters at the plant, which use about half the energy of [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
General Electric will cut 60 jobs from its plant in West Burlington, Iowa, which manufactures low-voltage switchgear. Some of the reductions will come from early retirees. The facility currently employs 313 people. As of the 2000 census, West Burlington had a population of 3,161. The General Electric Company, or GE, is a multinational technology and services conglomerate incorporated [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 22, 2009
GE Consumer & Industrial is negotiating with IUE-CWA Local 761 to gain concessions the firm says would save existing workers from layoffs, and create 100 new jobs in Louisville, Kentucky. The concessions would include a pay freeze to June 2011. The plant manufactures major home appliances. One hundred hourly employees at GE Consumer & Industrial have accepted [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 12, 2009
General Electric will build a $100 million sodium battery factory in New York State. The plant will open in 2011, and will employ 350 people. A specific site has not been determined. The state will give GE a $15 million cash incentive. The General Electric Company, or GE, is a multinational technology and services conglomerate incorporated in the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 10, 2009
GE Healthcare has announced that 179 employees will be permanently laid off from its Milwaukee, Wisconsin plant beginning June 9th. GE intends to outsource its circuit board production operations, as part of a plan announced in December. The medical imaging & diagnostics systems company blamed the firings on the weak health care market. Layoffs from the plant [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 17, 2009
General Electric is cutting jobs at finance unit GE Capital as part of a $2 billion cost-reduction program. GE said it was making announcements internally, and declined to provide specific numbers. GE plans to complete the cost-cutting moves by the end of 2009. GE Capital could be facing a headcount reduction of 7,500 to 11,000 jobs, [...]
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