Job alert - - Canucks up for more jobs

Canucks up for more jobs
Ottawa Sun - UNEMPLOYMENT numbers for May knocked analysts for a loop as the economy produced almost five times more jobs than expected. The 97,600 jobs created in May pushed the unemployment rate down three-tenths of a percentage point to 6.1%, the lowest rate

Athens quarry expects to add 100 jobs
Duluth News Tribune - WAUSAU, Wis. - An Athens company expects to add 100 jobs over the next three years to mine an igneous rock used in road construction. The quarry company, Rocky Mountain Enterprises, has a deposit of diabase that's nearly free of impurities, officials

Broyhill Furniture announces plant closing, job cuts
Hickory Daily Record - LENOIR -- The bad news from Broyhill Furniture continued Friday with the announcement of the closing of a Lenoir plant and the loss of 692 jobs. Broyhill will close its 522,000-square-foot Pacemaker plant, 802 Complex Place, SW, on Aug. 26. Some

Eat, Drink and Be Miriam
Fayetteville Observer - CLARKTON An air-filter maker is opening a plant in a former textile mill, creating 150 jobs. The move of Flanders Corp. into the former Harriet & Henderson Yarns Inc. building marks a turnaround for Clarkton. Eighteen months ago, the town had

Indiana Makes Largest Jobs Creation Announcement Since 2004
WANE-TV - (Jeffersonville, IN, AP) A southern Indiana barge maker and operator plans to add 1100 jobs over the next three years as part of an expansion project. American Commercial Lines of Jeffersonville says it will increase its work force by more than one