West Asset Management will hire 100 people for new positions at its call center in Wausau, Wisconsin. The new hires will be working with customers of leading financial institutions to modify existing loans. These positions are entry level and provide comprehensive benefits packages, including pay with a possible monthly bonus. Workers are needed for [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Talgo Inc., a Spanish-based train company, is opening a new plant in Milwaukee that will immediately create 125 new jobs. Chief Executive Officer Antonio Perez said Tuesday the facility will be used to assemble and maintain high-speed trains in the United States. About 450 more supply jobs will be created to support operations, Perez said. The [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 10, 2010
U.S. Bank will hire 60 new employees at their Brookfield, Wisconsin location. The bank will expand its credit card issuing technology department. The department has 300 employees providing support services for the credit card arm of U.S. Bank’s “retail payments solutions group”. The department also deals with debit and prepaid cards. The additional jobs will [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 23, 2009
According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development the unemployment rate in the Milwaukee area rose to 8.4 percent in November from 8.2 percent in October. Milwaukee was one of six of the state’s 12 metropolitan statistical areas to see higher month-over-month unemployment rates. Jobless rates had remained flat in four areas and declined in two [...]
Continue reading...Monday, December 21, 2009
With help from tax credits issued by the state Department of Commerce, Dickten Masch Plastics is expanding and creating 75 new jobs. 160 additional jobs will also be retained as result of the project which involves investing $2.8 million in a new production line. Dickten Masch, a division of the Everett Smith Group, produces plastic [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 11, 2009
Thanks to $3.1 million in stimulus money, three companies in Wisconsin will create close to 300 new green jobs. Helios USA, a start up company making solar panels, is receiving $1 million and will create 54 jobs. Nature Tech, another start up, will recycle old newspaper to make insulation. Nature Tech will [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 3, 2009
Layoff notices have been sent to 85 employees at the Wisconsin based Winnebago County Mental Health Institute. According to the institute, they are expecting a decrease in patients admitted throughout the next year, and in turn, will need less staff. Earlier this year, the state decided that counties would be responsible for paying for mental health [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The US Department of Commerce has announced that Langlade County, Wisconsin and the North Central Technical College of Antigo will get a $1.28 million federal grant to build the Wood Technology Center of Excellence. The project will create 430 jobs and generate $14 million in private investment. Langlade County, Wisconsin had a population of 20,740 in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 18, 2009
The Sanford Corporation will close its Janesville, Wisconsin facility and send over 100 jobs to Mexico. One hundred and fifty people will be jobless when the plant, which makes pens, by March 2010. Manufacturing and distribution jobs will go to Mexico, while administrative work will be sent to Sanford’s Oak Brook, Illinois headquarters. Sanford is a Newell Rubbermaid [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, August 15, 2009
Midwest Airlines will cut 100 jobs in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or 9% of its total workforce. Back office and administrative positions at the airline’s Oak Creek headquarters were targeted. Those let go will get severance. The layoffs leave Midwest’s Milwaukee area operation with 1,000 employees. Midwest Airlines, formerly Midwest Express, is an airline subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, based [...]
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Thursday, March 18, 2010
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