Online jobs - Automakers' Woes Hit Home State Hard
Ledger - None of the 20-plus jobs he has applied for has panned out. And when he asks headhunters about manufacturing employment options in his home state, the news isn't good. "I say I'd like to stay in Michigan, and they say there is no work in Michigan
Business Courier - About 20,600 jobs were created in Kentucky over 2006, which helped drop the unemployment rate to 5.7 percent from 6 percent the year before, the Office of Employment and Training reported. The figure lagged the U.S. jobless rate, which fell to 4.6
Guardian Unlimited - Airbus is to cut around 1,600 jobs in the UK over the next four years under restructuring plans. The plane maker said 10,000 jobs will be cut across its 16 European sites, with those in France and Germany being hardest hit. The 1,600 cuts in the UK
Silicon Valley - Separately, American Airlines said it planned to restore more than 60 maintenance workers in Tulsa, Okla., to higher-paying jobs as full technicians and recall others to take the lower-skilled positions. Company officials credited the recalls to an
BBC Business - German drugs firm Bayer is to axe 6,100 jobs worldwide as part of a major cost-cutting drive following its takeover of rival Schering. Bayer said 3,150 jobs would go in Europe, while its operations in North America and Latin America would account for
Ledger - California employers cut payrolls by 4,500 jobs in January, led by declines in the leisure and hospitality industry, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. The state's unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, unchanged from December
WISH-TV - NEW CASTLE, Ind. - New Castle Mayor Tom Nipp tells Inside INdiana Business that TS Tech North America, Inc. is planning to build a $25 million automotive parts manufacturing facility in the city and over the next two years could create up to 900 new
Capitol Hill Blue - Last week we learned that many of our disabled Iraq-war veterans are being shafted by the military and medical bureaucracy. Now we find out that some reservists and members of the National Guard are returning home to find their jobs gone. Although
Silicon Valley - Already under scrutiny for his role in misdated stock options at Apple, Steve Jobs is facing growing questions about whether he was involved in similar problems at Pixar. The latest issue with the Disney-owned film studio involves a 10-year
Newsday - Chem-Nuclear, a disposal site for low-level radioactive waste from hospitals and power plants around the nation, offers some of the county's few high-paying jobs, provides roughly 10 percent of its overall budget and pumps $1 million a year into
Business Courier - About 20,600 jobs were created in Kentucky over 2006, which helped drop the unemployment rate to 5.7 percent from 6 percent the year before, the Office of Employment and Training reported. The figure lagged the U.S. jobless rate, which fell to 4.6
Guardian Unlimited - Airbus is to cut around 1,600 jobs in the UK over the next four years under restructuring plans. The plane maker said 10,000 jobs will be cut across its 16 European sites, with those in France and Germany being hardest hit. The 1,600 cuts in the UK
Silicon Valley - Separately, American Airlines said it planned to restore more than 60 maintenance workers in Tulsa, Okla., to higher-paying jobs as full technicians and recall others to take the lower-skilled positions. Company officials credited the recalls to an
BBC Business - German drugs firm Bayer is to axe 6,100 jobs worldwide as part of a major cost-cutting drive following its takeover of rival Schering. Bayer said 3,150 jobs would go in Europe, while its operations in North America and Latin America would account for
Ledger - California employers cut payrolls by 4,500 jobs in January, led by declines in the leisure and hospitality industry, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday. The state's unemployment rate was 4.8 percent, unchanged from December
WISH-TV - NEW CASTLE, Ind. - New Castle Mayor Tom Nipp tells Inside INdiana Business that TS Tech North America, Inc. is planning to build a $25 million automotive parts manufacturing facility in the city and over the next two years could create up to 900 new
Capitol Hill Blue - Last week we learned that many of our disabled Iraq-war veterans are being shafted by the military and medical bureaucracy. Now we find out that some reservists and members of the National Guard are returning home to find their jobs gone. Although
Silicon Valley - Already under scrutiny for his role in misdated stock options at Apple, Steve Jobs is facing growing questions about whether he was involved in similar problems at Pixar. The latest issue with the Disney-owned film studio involves a 10-year
Newsday - Chem-Nuclear, a disposal site for low-level radioactive waste from hospitals and power plants around the nation, offers some of the county's few high-paying jobs, provides roughly 10 percent of its overall budget and pumps $1 million a year into
