Washington State will receive $6 million in federal stimulus money to develop clean energy jobs. The new funds will go to the Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board. The funds will provide training for 4,700 people across the state. Grants are targeted to people with disabilities, veterans and workers who have been [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, October 11, 2009
Washington State’s Yakima County is looking at mass layoffs as a serious option to compensate for the county’s budget gap, which is upwards of $3 million. Between 45 and 60 jobs hang in the balance as county commissioners head to Tuesday’s meeting to set a preliminary budget for 2010. It is projected that that budget will [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Seattle, Washington’s Dendreon plans to construct a $70 million manufacturing facility near Atlanta, Georgia, creating hundreds of jobs. The plant will manufacture Provenge, a treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The drug is under review by the Food and Drug Administration, and the plant will open when the product is approved. Dendreon is a biotechnology company [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
RealNetworks has eliminated 12 more jobs, or 9% of its music division. Employees of both RealNetworks and Rhapsody America were targeted. The firm cut 130 jobs last year. RealNetworks is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Seattle, Washington. The company is best known for the creation of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
The city of Tacoma, Washington may leave 96 jobs unfilled next year, as it copes with a $36 million budget shortfall. The city hopes to avoid laying people off or reducing services. Tacoma’s sales tax revenues are down 16% since 2007, and utility revenues are 40% less than estimates. Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Department of Defense intends to cut 98 positions from a Washington Air National Guard unit that protects the US from Internet-based attacks. The Air National Guard’s annual budget eliminates the positions at the 194th Regional Support Wing by October 1st. Most of the unit is based at Camp Murray, near of Tacoma. Targeted jobs include the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 3, 2009
Washington state’s Rainier School, a residential facility for developmentally disabled adults, is laying off an undisclosed number of employees. Press reports say the number is greater than 40. The layoffs are the result of budget cuts at the Department of Social and Health Services. Founded in 1939, the Rainier School is a residential facility for 440 adults [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
A new Red Robin restaurant in Lakewood, Washington, will hire 54 new workers. Five hundred local residents have applied for the jobs. Pierce County, Washington has a 10% unemployment rate. It has a population of 700,820. Red Robin is a chain of casual dining restaurants founded in 1969 in Seattle, Washington, and now headquartered in Greenwood Village, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Bellingham Herald, which cut ten jobs in March, will cut 30 further positions, 25 of them at a press in Mount Vernon. Also, remaining employees will have to take a one-week unpaid furlough this summer. Last week, the newspaper sold its building in downtown Bellingham, Washington for $2.35 million. After the cuts, the Herald will employ [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Eastern Washington University may cut 110 jobs, as it faces $26 million in budget reductions. Almost half of the jobs are already vacant. The school plans to increase class size, and may raise tuition. Founded in 1882, Eastern Washington University is a public comprehensive state university. The main campus is located in Cheney, Washington and has a [...]
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