Published: October 28, 2010
Tags: AGC, Associated General Contractors, employment, jobs, recession
Construction employment declined in 236 out of 337 metropolitan areas between September 2009 and September 2010, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Thursday by the Associated General Contractors of America. Meanwhile, the number of metro areas adding jobs – 56 – matched the previous month’s data, indicating the sector remains weak [...]
Published: September 28, 2010
Tags: AGC, Associated General Contractors, Eau Claire, employment, jobs, Simonson
Construction employment expanded in 56 out of 337 metropolitan areas between August 2009 and August 2010, according to a new analysis of federal employment data by the Associated General Contractors of America. More cities added construction jobs during the past year than at any point since September 2008, according to the report. AGC chief economist [...]
Published: June 9, 2010
Tags: Adecco, economy, employment, jobs, quitting, University of Chicago
By Christopher Leonard and Christopher S. Rugaber AP Business Writers One sign of better economic times is when more people start finding jobs. Another is when they feel confident enough to quit them. More people quit their jobs in the past three months than were laid off — a sharp reversal after 15 straight months [...]
Published: May 10, 2010
Tags: Aadland Evans Constructors, AGC, Associated General Contractors of America, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Choctaw Transportation Co., Construction, employment, stimulus
By Brian Johnson Dolan Media Newswires Minneapolis — Despite national employment numbers offering encouraging news for construction, builders across the country are nervous about what the future holds as stimulus projects start to wind down. Construction employment was up by 14,000 jobs in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It was the second [...]
Published: November 23, 2009
Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, American Subcontractors Association of Wisconsin, Beiriger, Bender, Drewianka, economy, employment, Jorgensen, Painters and Allied Trades District Council No. 7, stimulus, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Wisconsin
By Sean Ryan The construction industry is falling from a sustained boom that peaked in 2007 and 2008, resulting in a plummeting number of jobs this year. There are two ways to interpret the dramatic shift in the industry, said Keith Bender, assistant professor of economics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. One, the decline is [...]
Published: November 2, 2009
Tags: Caterpillar, Commerce Department, Deere, economy, employment, housing, manufacuring, recovery
By TALI ARBEL AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Hopes for the fledgling economic recovery got a boost Monday from better-than-expected news on manufacturing, construction and contracts to buy homes. U.S. manufacturing activity grew in October at the fastest pace in more than three years, according to a private group’s measure. It was driven [...]
Published: September 3, 2009
Tags: employment, Fond du Lac, Mercury Marine, Okla., Stillwater, union, vote
Sean Ryan and Kirby Lee Davis Dolan Media Newswires The vote Thursday and Friday by Mercury Marine workers in Fond du Lac has communities in two states facing the same fear of losing hundreds of jobs — and gain cavernous, vacant buildings. The company is threatening to leave Fond du Lac and move some production [...]
Published: August 7, 2009
Tags: best practices, employment, hiring
Deidre Siegel Dolan Media Newswires Long Island, NY — The key ingredients of a company’s success are the people working in the organization. The soul of a company extends from every level of talent you hire and retain. With that in mind, do you think about the impression you leave on the potential new hire [...]
Published: July 1, 2009
Tags: employment, jobs, recession, unemployment
Timothy R. Brown AP Writer Jackson, MS (AP) — Online job advertisements declined by over 500,000 in June compared with the same period a year earlier, but a national report shows only a modest decrease from May, a private research group says. The Conference Board released its monthly Help-Wanted Online Data Series report this week. [...]
Published: May 21, 2009
Tags: budget, employment, Europe, jobless, recession, revenue, software
Manitowoc County seeks employee cuts in face of decreased revenue Manitowoc (AP) — Manitowoc County’s unionized employees are being asked to take pay cuts, a wage freeze and potential increases in health insurance costs to cut expenses by around $2 million a year because of decreased revenues. County Executive Bob Ziegelbauer made the request Wednesday [...]
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