United Furniture is adding 100 jobs at its plant in Okolona, Mississippi. This comes as welcome news to Okolona, which has an unemployment rate of over 13%. In addition to new jobs, the company will spend $1.3 million in grant money to modernize its building, installing new sprinkler systems and doing repairs to [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 27, 2009
Specialty Process Fabricators of Vicksburg, Mississippi will shut down over the next few months, laying off its 50 employees. The subsidiary of Ergon will lay off workers at its refining plant and ethanol plant as projects are completed. Ergon is based in Jackson, Mississippi. It includes operations as a refiner, transporter, producer, distributor and marketer of petroleum [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 25, 2009
Baldor Electric will invest $12.2 million in Kings Mountain, North Carolina operation, as it moves its South Carolina operations to other locations. The State of North Carolina has offered the firm $157,000 in incentives. The Kings Mountain plant in currently employs 500. The new jobs will pay an average wage of $38,000. The firm is shuttering its Fort [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, May 30, 2009
The City of Petal, Mississippi will cut 25 city jobs. Next week, department heads will submit the names of the employees who will be laid off. The city’s accountant recommended a total of 50 job cuts. The police department will lose five officers and two staff. Four firefighters have joined or return to the military to avoid [...]
Continue reading...Friday, April 24, 2009
Private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America held a job fair this week, and met with 3,000 applicants at for 409 jobs at its new facility in Adams County, Mississippi. CCA officials had expected about 1,000 applicants. The 2,658-bed prison will open in late July. The inmates will be minimum-security federal prisoners, most illegal immigrants. Corrections Corporation of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 2, 2009
Residential building product manufacturer Ply Gem will cut over 160 jobs. Ply Gem, based in Cary, North Carolina, said it will cut 140 jobs at its vinyl siding manufacturing facility in Kearny, Missouri. The company also will close a Tupelo, Mississippi window and door manufacturing plant, which employs 23. Ply Gem will consolidate production of window lineals at [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
A new call center for NEW Customer Service Companies in Meridian, Mississippi has brought 273 jobs to the area. The center is responsible for fielding and managing inbound calls from DirecTV customers. With more than 17 million customers, DirecTV is one of NEW’s largest clients. Sterling, Virginia’s NEW Customer Service employs more than 720 people in Meridian [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 26, 2009
Holland, Michigan’s United Chair will add 125 new jobs at a north Mississippi plant, as part of a consolidation of its North American operations that includes a Michigan facility closure. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced the expansion of United Chair in Bruce at a news conference today in his capitol office. A chair made by the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Mississippi state budget cuts are making it more and more likely that staff layoffs will occur in at least one agency. Department of Mental Health Director Ed Legrand said that 30 employees at facilities around the state will be laid off as a result of the $13 million in budget cuts. Legrand also [...]
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