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Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant plans to add a third shift, and potentially hire upwards of 1,000 more workers, as it readies to make the five-seat version of its Atlas SUV next year, an official said Friday. "We're already planning," said Antonio Pinto, chief executive of the Volkswagen plant, adding that hiring is expected to start this year and continue in 2019. Pinto, speaking after a ceremony unveiling the 100,000th Atlas produced at the sprawling factory, said the third shift will begin next year as the five-seat Atlas is added to production. Plant workers now assemble the seven-seat SUV and the midsize...

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The benefits of a strong job market are spreading in the form of higher wages for many of those left behind for much of the past decade’s economic expansion, including young Americans, low-income households and people with the least education. The unemployment rate in September fell to 3.7%, its lowest level since 1969. That is creating worker shortages and wage gains, not just for high-skilled workers who tend to command the best pay but also for low-skilled and blue-collar workers whose wages lag behind. A study by The Conference Board this week showed shortages are now most acute in blue-collar...

Foxconn Technology Group plans to hold five hiring events around the state over the next month as it ramps up hiring for its Wisconsin operations. The company says its hiring for “several hundred” positions in areas including human resources, hardware, software and firmware engineering, finance and accounting, legal, business analysis, graphics and interior design, construction management, sales, and marketing. Candidates interested in attending the hiring fairs and applying for Foxconn positions can pre-register and submit their resumes to https://fewidev.com/events/#/. Only candidates who are shortlisted and assigned interview times will be invited to attend the events. The events are scheduled for...

SEOUL, Oct 1 (Reuters) - South Korea’s SK Innovation said on Monday it is considering building an electric vehicle battery plant in the United States as part of its effort to secure customers in one of the world’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) markets. The move came after U.S. President Donald Trump on May 23 ordered a ‘Section 232’ national security investigation into whether to impose a 25 percent tariff on vehicle and auto parts imported from other countries. SK Innovation currently has Daimler and Hyundai Motor as its top consumers, but does not have U.S. clients. “We are considering building...

“We’ve made a 300-million-dollar commitment to South Carolina, to Columbia, to Richland County.” Says Drew Walker, Co-President of Jushi USA Corporation. Hundreds of new jobs are coming to Columbia, as a Chinese company expands in the U.S. The company is called Jushi which means “giant stone” and is about to complete construction on its first manufacturing site built in the U.S. It's part of Columbia’s Pineview Industrial Park along Shop Rd. It’s the largest factory ever built in Richland County and will be the largest in the southeast. “The factory is about 90 percent complete. We expect to open in...

We are an IATF 16949 registered, high volume OEM automotive parts manufacturing company. As a result of our continued growth, our Maysville, Kentucky plant is currently recruiting for the following positions: Quality Control Engineer • Bachelor’s Degree in Quality, Electrical, Electronics or Mechanical Engineering or other related technical area, plus a minimum of three years’ experience in quality control in the electronics industry or equivalent. • Certification through the American Society for Quality CQE and CQA, or CSSBB a plus. • Broad and detailed knowledge of quality control, engineering and production methods. • Detailed knowledge of statistics, statistical process control...

Komatsu Mining Corp. is planning to add 443 jobs over the next 12 years at the $285 million headquarters planned for Milwaukee’s Harbor District, where the company’s total employment is expected to eventually exceed 1,000. “We are hiring today but we are also working to develop the workforce for tomorrow,” said John Koetz, president of surface mining at Komatsu. Komatsu is planning to consolidate its West Milwaukee headquarters along West National Avenue and its operations at the Honey Creek Corporate Center at a new South Harbor Campus that will spread across 2.5 million square feet south of Greenfield Avenue and...

Paris, IL - North American Lighting is hosting an open interview day at the Paris, Illinois manufacturing facility. Stop in between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. and 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. to apply and interview with the HR department on Thursday, October 4th The company is currently hiring 2nd shift operators. The starting wage is $15.30/hour or $31,824/year plus benefits. Employees covered by NAL’s health insurance will also have access to the free NAL Health Clinic located across the street from the manufacturing plant.

Town officials welcomed new business Rubius Therapeutics to town almost a year to the day since the closing of the previous tenant, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, at 100 Technology Way. On Wednesday, Sept. 19, town officials joined by Rubius executives and Gov. Gina Raimondo held a ground-breaking ceremony for the 135,000-square-foot manufacturing facility. Rubuis, based in Cambridge, Mass., plans to open the building in 2020, investing $95 million in construction and renovations at the facility before opening, and up to $155 million total over a five-year period. The facility will create 150 jobs at the facility, primarily in manufacturing, according to Rubius...

Ever since then Lieutenant Dwight D. Eisenhower lead a convoy of early trucks across the United States in 1919, the role of the American truck driver has been cemented in our culture, history and economy. Because of the importance truckers play almost a century after that famous cross country trip, the American Trucking Associations celebrates National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.As part of this well deserved celebration, Shell Rotella is launching an all new season of the hit CarbonTV original, “Roadworthy”. In the show, viewers will meet and ride along with truckers around the United States who have a strong desire...

Standard wage data show that between the spring of 2017 and the spring of 2018, real wages in the U.S. increased only 0.1%. But there are three major problems with these data. First, they don’t account for fringe benefits, which are an increasing proportion of employee pay. Second, standard wage data use an index that overstates the inflation rate. Third, each year the composition of the workforce changes, as older, higher-paid workers retire and young, lower-paid workers enter the workforce. A study released this month by the White House Council of Economic Advisers addresses these three biases and concludes that...

Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma said the company can no longer meet its promise to create 1 million jobs in the United States due to trade tensions between Washington and Beijing, China's Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. Ma has already warned that the trade war between the world's two largest economies could last decades and that China should focus exports on the "Silk Road" trade route, citing Africa, Southeast Asia and Europe. Ma met President Donald Trump two years ago and laid out the Chinese e-commerce giant's plan to bring one million small U.S. businesses onto its platform to sell to...

President Donald Trump's economic agenda is fueling a resurgence in the economy that cannot be denied, billionaire businessman and philanthropist Ken Langone told CNBC on Thursday. "This economy is booming," said Langone, a longtime supporter of GOP candidates who was not always a fan of Trump. "I think he's made a lot of moves that are constructive to the economy." Since Trump took office, the gross domestic product is growing at a 3 percent-plus rate. The unemployment rate is currently around a 50-year low. Langone, co-founder of Home Depot, said "every indicator" for the moment is showing a clear path...

The numbers: The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits in mid-September fell to a fresh 49-year low, more proof that a growing labor shortage and surging economy have given workers greater job security. Initial jobless claims, a rough proxy for layoffs, fell by 3,000 to 201,000 in the seven days ended Sept. 15. That’s below the 208,000 MarketWatch forecast and marks the lowest level since Nov. 12, 1969.

MDI, producer of standard and custom corrugated plastic packing containers, is adding 160 jobs across its four locations, with the majority to be filled at its new Hibbing facility. One hundred jobs became available in the Northland this summer in the area of material handlers, maintenance and quality technicians, production workers and hand assemblers. Many positions are contract hires with potential to become full-time jobs. Consistent with the mission of the organization, MDI has a particular interest in creating employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. The hiring spree is being driven by an order increase placed by the United States...

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sycuan Casino announced today that the organization is now hiring for over 700 new positions for its hotel and resort expansion. The variety of new positions are in the food and beverage, hotel and casino divisions. Sycuan is kicking off its hiring efforts with a job fair this Thursday, September 20 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the East County Career Center. Sycuan will host a series of job fairs through the remainder of this year and into 2019. Many of the job fairs hosted by Sycuan will have hiring managers on-site...

Now streaming on your handheld devices is America’s New Economy, and it will soon make the messages of both political parties obsolete. American consumers always spent too much. Thomas Jefferson went bankrupt by living high on credit and ever since, his countrymen have borrowed recklessly — until the next financial crisis compelled retrenchment. Periods of robust economic expansion have been defined by consumers’ willingness to splurge on big ticket items like cars and homes, and businesses’ appetite for grand new projects — Fulton’s steamboat, canals, railroads, airlines and most recently shale oil and pipelines. Remarkably the economy is now on...

HANFORD — Faraday Future officials welcomed newly hired employees Tuesday at its Hanford factory and have announced even more hiring efforts. The announcement comes just in time, as the first pre-production FF 91 luxury electronic vehicle was recently built at the Hanford facility, which is located in Hanford's Industrial Park. Vince Nguyen, director of human resources and recruiting - product and technology at Faraday Future, said the company has hired around 100 employees to work in the Hanford facility and ultimately hopes to employ around 1,000 people by mid-2019. Currently, Nguyen said a majority of the new hires have original...

Open a bag of frozen shrimp from Walmart. Toss the packaging in the trash. Two routine tasks, but they represent final commercial destinations for ethane molecules freed from Texas shale, a journey that has not only taken them hundreds of miles to Houston’s massive petrochemical complex, but also around the world and back again in the carefully choreographed dance of global supply chains. Each day, hundreds of trucks and rail cars move pellets of ethane-derived polyethylene from petrochemical plants, such as Exxon Mobil's in Mont Belvieu, to the Port of Houston. There, the pellets are loaded by the ton onto...