Concord Textile Care Products is creating a new line of cleaning products that do not use the dry cleaning solvent perchloroethylene (PERC). The company will invest $1.4 million at its plant in Buffalo for production of the new products. Most of that money will be returned to the company through tax credits and [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 17, 2009
Ed Montgomery, the Obama administration’s Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers, aka “Car Czar,” has announced the commitment of $25 million in stimulus funds for the retraining of laid off auto workers. The cash be awarded to training programs that can help auto workers transition to industries that are seeking new employees, such as [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 26, 2009
Between contributions from the Obama administration’s federal stimulus program and the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, WorkReady Philadelphia will be able give temporary summer jobs to 9,000 at-risk young people in the City of Brotherly Love this summer. The program will get $7.4 million in federal recovery funds. WorkReady employed almost 8,000 youths aged 14 to [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Colorado Department of Transportation is expanding its on-the-job training program, which prepares young people for highway construction jobs. The program is paid for through a grant from the Federal Highway Administration. The CDOT has received $1 million over the past two years, and has applied for another $700,000 this year. Since CDOT launched the program in [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 11, 2009
Minneapolis-based medical devices manufacturer Medtronic will add 1,400 jobs over the next five years at a new customer support facility in San Antonio, Texas. Recruiting is to begin at once, and the facility should be up and running by the Fall. The new facility will house customer service, training and education personnel for its diabetes equipment division. Share [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 13, 2009
Hino Motors has laid off 10 full-timers at its Williamstown, West Virginia commercial truck manufacturing plant. The plant employs about 100 people. Hino is offering severance packages to those laid off. The Workforce West Virginia Rapid Response Team will help the affected employees with unemployment compensation and worker training. Hino Motors is a manufacturer of diesel trucks, buses, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 24, 2009
President Tuxedo, a Michigan-based men’s formal wear company, is opening a new distribution center and headquarters in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The new dry-cleaning, warehouse, and distribution center will serve President Tuxedo’s 21 stores in Michigan and Ohio. The service center will also be the corporate headquarters, with the additional capacity to train store managers and associates in [...]
Continue reading...Friday, March 13, 2009
The Therma-Tru door manufacturing plant in Butler, Indiana will add 150 jobs with $5 million in investments. The residential steel and fiberglass door manufacturer is closing two other plants, in Oklahoma and Virginia. Maumee, Ohio-based Therma-Tru will get tax incentives as part of the deal, up to $1 million in performance based tax credits and up to [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
Affiliated Computer Services, or ACS, is in the process of expanding its presence in San Antonio, Texas with 500 jobs to support a new contract. The Dallas-based company will be providing customer service on behalf of an unnamed Fortune 500 company. ACS is holding two job fairs this week to fill as many as these open positions [...]
Continue reading...Monday, March 9, 2009
Onshore Technology Services plans to add an additional 100 technology jobs this year. The firm, which is located in Macon, Missouri, about 180 miles from St. Louis, trains Missouri’s rural workforce in advanced technology professions to offer “rural outsourcing” as an alternative to offshore outsourcing. President and CEO Shane Mayes founded Onshore in 2005. Onshore has established rural [...]
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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