Job alert - - Rubbermaid to close Centerville plant; 500 jobs lost

Rubbermaid to close Centerville plant; 500 jobs lost
Centre Daily - DES MOINES, Iowa - About 525 workers at the Newell Rubbermaid Inc. plant in Centerville will lose their jobs when the consumer products maker closes the plant after 21 years of operation. Workers were told Wednesday evening that the plant would shut

Superior Industries Cuts 225 Jobs
MSN MoneyCentral - VAN NUYS, Calif. (AP) - Superior Industries International Inc., a maker of cast and aluminum wheels for the auto industry, said Friday it plans to lay off 225 employees at its Fayetteville, Ark., chrome plating facility. The plant's bright polish

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Des Moines Register - A Rubbermaid official said no Iowa incentives could have compensated for the savings to be gained by moving the Centerville production to Kansas. The Centerville plant, above, is too small to absorb the Kansas jobs, he said. Candidates for Iowa

Contra Costa County Gets Job Training Grant
KGO - June 16 - KGO - Contra Costa officials are applauding a new job training grant they hope will enable them to keep providing workers for the County's manufacturing jobs. A big source of potential employees are those who've lost jobs in other

East Bay unemployment down
MSN MoneyCentral - Unemployment in the East Bay was down slightly in May, to 4.1 percent from 4.3 percent a month ago, according to figures released by the state's Employment Development Department on Friday. The newest figure is below the year-ago estimate of 4.8