A wind turbine assembly plant opening this year in Oakland County, Michigan will hire 250 manufacturing workers. Novi-based Global Wind Systems will begin hiring skilled…
A new study says Ohio ranks 49th nationally in economic performance and employment, better only than New York. The American Legislative Exchange Council also ranked…
Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa will lay off 10 full-time and 33 part-time faculty members. Remaining staff not covered by a collective bargaining agreement…
Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, a unit of Bank of America, has cut some business manager positions, laying off some employees and retaining others in…
New York Governor David A. Paterson plans to eliminate nearly 9,000 jobs, mostly through layoffs, after failing to get unions to agree to cost-cutting concessions.…
Legg Mason’s Western Asset Management unit, the third-largest American manager of bond funds, has eliminated about 100 jobs, or 10% of its workforce. The Pasadena,…
Mosinee, Wisconsin-based Wausau Financial Systems has laid off 24 workers, including 14 in Mosinee. Founded in 1974, Wausau offers payment, remittance and document processing software…
Santa Barbara, California bank holding firm Pacific Capital Bancorp will cut 300 workers, or 22% of its workforce. The company will cut 80 positions in…
Benchmark crude deliverable this April slipped down 27 cents to $47.08 a barrel in Singapore. Mondays prices were as low as $43.63 before bouncing back…