Citing “extraordinary economic conditions,” steel company ArcelorMittal is set to lay off 171 steelworkers at its tin mill in West Virginia. ArcelorMittal announced last month it would cut an unspecified number of jobs in 2010 and a company spokesperson specified the tin mill cuts to local television stations on Monday. The Associated Press reports 35 workers were [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 30, 2009
Sitel, a Tennessee based call center outsourcing company, announced that it will close its center in Huntington, West Virginia at the end of this year due to changing business needs. The company plans to work with local and state government agencies to help the 112 employees of the call center find new jobs. Sitel describes [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 22, 2009
Mountaineer Gas, supplier of gas to 48 of 55 counties in West Virginia, is opening a new call center in Charleston. The call center will be run by NCO Group, an outsourcing company that primarily handles customer service, debt collection and accounts receivable for companies. The center will start out with 50 employees [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
Patriot Coal will shut down a surface mine in West Virginia, putting 314 people on the street by October. The layoffs are permanent. The Boone County mine, operated by Patriot subsidiary Catenary Coal, spans three counties. The closure will will affect employees at the mine, plus workers at Catenary’s plant, warehouse and offices. Patriot Coal Corporation is based [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
CDI IT Solutions will double its workforce in Cross Lanes, West Virginia, hiring 50 people. The firm operates a technology service center in Cross Lanes, an unincorporated census-designated place suburb of Charleston in Kanawha County. As of the 2007 estimate, Cross Lanes’ population was 13,119. Philadelphia’s CDI IT Solutions, a division of CDI Corp., provides information technology [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 25, 2009
Bayer MaterialScience will close its plant in New Martinsville, West Virginia, putting 40 on the dole queue. The plant produces coatings, adhesives and specialty resins. The firm will send the work to Europe, Asia, and other US locations. The facility will have 260 employees after the layoffs. Wetzel County had a 14.3% unemployment rate in June. Leverkusen, Germany’s Bayer [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 13, 2009
The Federal Bureau of Prisons says the agency has hired 49 employees for the federal prison in Hazelton, West Virginia. The facility, in Preston County, still has 15 vacancies. Over the next year two new prisons will open in the state, creating 600 jobs. The new positions will include guards, medical professional, human resources experts, construction workers, [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 29, 2009
Foundation Coal Holdings reports that its Central Appalachian affiliates cut 60 jobs due to reduced demand. The Linthicum Heights, Maryland-based coal mining company said the production cuts are within the range it predicted to investors. Abingdon, Virginia’s Alpha Natural Resources will acquire Foundation Coal in August or September, for $1.5 billion in an all-stock deal, creating the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 13, 2009
With a new prison set to open in McDowell County, West Virginia next year, the County Economic Development agency will sponsor a job fair in Welch on May 21st. The prison is expected to employ 340 people. McDowell County’s unemployment rate is 9.9%, compared to the state rate of 7.7%. Its population was 27,300 in 2000. It [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 7, 2009
CONSOL Energy will eliminate 54 jobs, and shut down two operations in the West Virginia’s southern coalfields in July. The Canonsburg, Pennsylvania-based company says 47 mine jobs will be cut; and seven will be laid off the at the Miller Creek Administration Group in Williamson. Founded in 1864, Cumberland, Maryland’s CONSOL Energy is the largest underground coal [...]
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