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HP laying off 27,000 workers in restructuring
2012-05-23 22:22:00 Hewlett-Packard says it's laying off 27,000 workers, 8 percent of its work force, as it restructures the business.
Postal employee on workers comp caught running marathon
2012-05-18 19:55:00 A U.S. District Court in Florida convicted a former Florida postal worker of health care fraud after she was caught participating in more than 80 long-distance races, including the Boston Marathon, all while taking workers' compensation for a back injury. Jacquelyn V. Myers, 55, was also convicted of making false statements and faces up to ...
Strike at Paladin Kayelekera mine, workers demand pay rise
2012-05-11 15:54:00 Workers at Kayelekela uranium mining project in northern Karonga district of Malawi have began an indefinite strike over labour conditions. The local workers told Nyasa Times that they are demanding pay increase from the uranium producer Paladin. Workers downed their tools on Friday afternoon halting production at the site. “We have been holding meetings over the issue since last week and on Friday 4th May 2014, the management threatened us with reprisals over a planned sit in so that our demands are met,” a spokesman for Local Staff Association told Nyasa Times. Striking workers waiting to be addressed by John Chandler the manager. Photo by citizen journalist The local staff said they resolved to remove the president of the association Passmore Chawinga “for being a coward and siding with management”. He was replaced him with Emmanuel Makolo who led the strike action. The local staff says despite their pay rise demands not being met, Paladin is able to pay non-essential ...
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For the Betterment of Workers
2012-05-08 17:12:00 It is important for any factory owner to think about the welfare of his factory workers. Today, there are many options through which a factory owner can provide numbers of benefits to his workers. Many insurance companies have attractive plans to cater this need. By going for good workers compensation insurance factory owners can become tension free. To know more about what is workers compensation insurance read this article. Recent, factory accident in Jallandhar is reminder of negligence on the part of factory owner. By properly taking care of all needs of their workers, factory owners can motivate their workers to work hard. Numbers of good insurance solutions can help any factory owner in achieving it.ArvindKatoch kgw.arvindkatoch.com
Maine's GOP governor calls state workers 'corrupt'
2012-04-27 23:54:00 Maine's blunt-speaking governor is again creating a ruckus with his offhanded remarks ? this time by calling state government middle managers "about as corrupt as can be."
Philadelphia transit workers hit $172.7 million jackpot
2012-04-27 05:00:00 Cheers and songs broke out at the Philadelphia's transit agency offices when 48 employees learned they had literally hit the jackpot - the $172.7 million Powerball lottery prize.
Why are Many of Your Co-Workers are Using Certain Alternatives to Smoking a
2012-04-26 21:19:00 There are people, who just stop for a second in their lives, and decided they wanted to stop smoking packs of tobacco. They likely noticed how much money they were using for their bi-daily packs of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Thousands of AT&T workers to stay on job as talks continue
2012-04-08 10:02:00 NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 40,000 employees at AT&T Inc will keep working under the terms of an expired labor contract while their union continues negotiations with the telephone company, averting a potentially costly strike for now. The workers in AT&T's traditional wireline telephone business and some other units voted recently to give their union, the Communications Workers of America, authority to call a strike ahead of the expiration of four separate labor contracts at midnight local time April 7. ...
Common Questions about Workers Compensation
2012-04-02 10:12:00 Common Questions about Workers Compensation Workers Comp is insurance that covers medical and rehabilitation costs and lost wages for employees injured at work; required by law in all states. In this article you will find some essentials question not just on California Workers Compensation but in general. What do I do if I get hurt ...
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Indonesia?s poverty rate falls
2012-03-25 12:14:00 There was much ado in the press here about Indonesia flexing its muscles over the tasks that domestic workers have to perform in Malaysia. Could it be that, with the poverty rate in Indonesia reportedly falling, there is less desperation to work in Malaysia? The poverty rate in Indonesia has plunged from 27 per cent [Read more]
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2 US troops shot in Kabul; NATO pulls workers
2012-02-26 18:12:00 2 US troops shot in Kabul; NATO pulls workers KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building, and NATO ordered military workers … Continue reading →
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Toxic Glue Puts Chinese Migrant Workers in Sticky Situation
2012-02-24 05:19:00 If you thought toxic glue was a ?first world problem? whose only victims were women engaged to marry George Costanza, think again. A major scandal brewing in China's southern city of Guangzhou has shone the spotlight on a vast, unlicensed leather-goods trade that exposes tens of thousands of migrant worker employees to high levels of dangerous chemicals.
How Does Workers Compensation Insurance Protect Your Small Business
2012-02-17 07:10:00 Whenever you start your own business, you need to prepare for the worst, right? The most cost-effective way is to get your business insured. Lots of business owners choose to purchase full coverage small business insurance to protect their companies, employees and customers. However, this is not enough. To get adequate protection, you will have to ...
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What do Democrats have against workers deciding for themselves?
2012-02-02 08:17:00 Whenever Republican governors and legislators push right-to-work laws in their various jurisdictions, unions and their Democratic allies become almost apoplectic. Despite doing their darnedest, Democrats in the Hoosier State couldn’t prevent the elected legislature from making Indiana . . . the 23rd state to pass anti-union [sic] “right-to-work” legislation on Wednesday and the first in ...
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Effects of Workers Motivation on Achievement of Project Goal
2012-01-31 08:22:00 House, am doing a project on the above title. Please can someone help me with new unique way of motivating an employee. I have asked to come up with something new and unique.
CTA pays out a boatload of overtime to union workers
2012-01-17 16:29:00 One CTA rail service supervisor worked an average of 34 hours of overtime on top of her 40-hour work week. And the CTA is the only governmental agency that includes overtime in calculations used to determine pensions. Those are just two of the shocking findings from a Tribune report published Sunday. Jackie Hubbard, the hard-working... Read more »
No happy new year for Samy and Bernadette
2011-12-31 08:09:00 While many of us are looking forward to a long New Year weekend holiday, for people like Samy and Bernadette, there is little to celebrate. Samy, like many other private security guards, works 12-hour shifts everyday without a rest day. On New Year, he will be at his post again from 7.00am to 7.00pm. He [Read more]
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USB Foot Warmer Hedgehog Slippers Keep Office Workers' Tootsies Toasty
2011-12-29 06:01:00 Offices can be downright chilly in winter, especially for women. Thank goodness Japan's JTT Online Shop is offering these ?Hedge Hot USB? powered foot warmers in the shape of cute boy & girl hedgehogs!
Dec. 14, 1996: Big Holiday Bonus Shows Workers the Money
2011-12-14 15:32:00 From Wired Top Stories: What'd you get this year? A party? A turkey? How about $130,000 -- and these were tech workers, not bamboozling bankers or anything. Kingston Technology, thanks for the memories. Read the whole article
The Value of Older Workers
2011-10-26 14:29:00 In engineering offices, older workers are an important source of knowledge and experience. But as the economic slump persists, older workers might not seem so valuable to companies looking to reduce costs and head count. Does your company place a high value on older workers, or are they a high-value
Saudis Tweet: Be Kind to Foreign Workers
2011-09-05 15:38:00 This is an excerpt from Arabnews, an English language daily paper from Saudi Arabia: JAZAN: A number of Saudis have launched a campaign on Twitter asking their compatriots to be kind to the foreign manpower living with them and to spread awareness in society about humanitarian treatment to foreign laborers. They also tweeted that Saudis ...
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Part-time workers: The new trend in hiring
2011-08-05 15:22:00 With the unemployment rate holding steady at just over 9%, it appears that theU.S.is going to be in for alongeconomic recovery. Yet, many large companies have made money and have been stock piling it away to protect them from the uncertainty in our economy. This trend doesn’t help job seekers looking to get back into...
Woman hurt while having sex files workers compensation claim
2011-08-02 15:16:00 Here’s a story printed in the Toronto Star I thought worth sharing. It seems there was a woman in Australia that says she is entitled to workers compensation after getting injured while having sex in her hotel room with an acquaintance on a business trip! She claims she has sustained psychiatric injury, as well as...
Temporary Workers Lead the Job Market Recovery
2011-06-10 03:31:00 While the job market remains stubbornly sluggish and competition fierce, job seekers are turning to temporary work to help them survive this Recession. Many of the jobs they seek are listed as temp-hire, where an employer first contracts them out on a temporary basis and then hires them after a 90-day period. According to David Lewis, Director of Franchising at Express Employment Professionals, more than 4 million workers were hired on this basis last year. Based in Oklahoma City, Express Employment Professionals was founded in 1983 by Bob Funk who still remains CEO of this thriving franchised company. With 555 franchise locations in the U.S., Canada and South Africa, they are seeing a trend toward hiring of temporary and temp-perm...
Dues Paid to Union Fat Cats Could Have Funded 265,447 Workers For A Year
2011-05-11 18:30:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Leftists and union supporters love to point to the salaries of corporate bosses and claim them an excess in order to goad regular people into fits of envy and hatred, stirring that class warfare that leftists love so much. But the folks at LaborUnionReport.com thought it might be interesting to turn the tables and calculate what could have been done with all that money were it not wasted on union dues. LUR notes that with 14.7 million union members nation wide, that is a "substantial amount of dues money flowing to unions." It is, indeed. Before we get to LUR's calculations, though, we should note that most dues money goes to fund the excessive lifestyles of...
While Illinois Citizens Lose Jobs, More Government Workers Get Union Protec
2011-03-30 16:48:00 -By Warner Todd Huston If this isn't just the way the most corrupt state in the country works, there's nothing that will show it. As the state of Illinois loses businesses and her citizens lose their jobs by the thousands, government workers in Illinois get richer and government unions are even adding members. Now there's more government union members in Illinois than ever leaching off a dwindling base of taxpayers. As the state sinks in red ink, government unions have grown to the point where nearly 97% of the state's government workers have become unionized with better pay, more lucrative pensions, and richer healthcare than every other average citizen who is forced to pay the government union member's exorbitant pay....
Toni Preckwinkle takes on county workers-- gently
2011-03-17 15:30:00 The dirty little secret that many of our government agencies have- that would not work in the private sector- is that the union contracts allow for tenure or seniority to supercede merit or qualifications for job positions. Take Illinois' Department of Children and Family Services, where most positions are employed by AFSCME (American Federation of State County and Municipal employees) members. Most, if not all, union positions at DCFS are filled according to length of service and not merit. Many positions are staffed by people with over 30 years experience who simply are not qualified to do the work they are doing as they lack the practical experience to fulfil the job requirements. Preckwinkle said she has a problem with pay raises based upon length of employment rather than based upon employee merit and performance. Amen Toni.
Who's fighting for low-wage workers?
2011-03-07 22:45:00 Many of us can't imagine raising a family on $10 an hour. And yet, every day, thousands of Chicagoans do it. The U.S. government estimates that one-third of all American workers are "low-wage workers"--people who's wages are so low that even if they worked full time, their wages wouldn't lift them above poverty.So, what happens to these workers when their checks are shorted? Or don't come at all?More at chicagoreporter.com...
Freedom Rider: Wisconsin Assault on Workers | Black Agenda Report
2011-02-25 06:47:00 [From: Black Agenda Report ] Only two years after the party supported by most of organized labor won a decisive national election, the Republicans are on the verge of crushing union power once and for all. But, the White House seems singularly uninvolved. “President Obama, who like all Democrats depends on labor unions to mobilize ...
Wisconsin Gov. workers overpaid and Gov. Walker's prankster conversati
2011-02-24 11:22:00 Wisconsin government employees are overpaid relative to their private sector counterparts. This is likely the case for their total compensation, salary plus benefits. Sophisticated economic studies support this theory and conclusion. Gov. Walker's phone conversation with a liberal prankstrer contained little to embarass Gov. Walker. This is based on a comparison to private conversations of President Kennedy.
Chicago Mayoral Candidates Challenged To Publicly Stand With Workers Facing
2011-01-14 01:54:00 The Next Generation of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr SAVE OUR JOBS COALITION, JOINED BY KEY RELIGIOUS LEADERS LIKE REV. MARSHALL HATCH, REV IRA ACREE, REV. ROOSELVELT WATKINS lll, ACTIVISTS LIKE MARK ALLEN AND OTHERSWHERE DO THE CANDIDATES FOR CHICAGO MAYOR STAND TODAY ON STOPPING THIS MASSIVE 26,000 JOB LOSS IN CHICAGO AND ILLINOIS SCHEDULED ON DR. KING'S BIRTHDAY IF WE DO NOT CONVINCE GOVERNOR QUINN TO SAVE THE "PUT ILLINOIS TO JOBS PROGRAM" -- THE PEOPLE LOSING THEIR JOBS NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE MAYORAL CANDIDATES STAND BEFORE THE ELECTION AND NOT AFTER !!!!WHICH CANDIDATES FOR CHICAGO MAYOR WILL PUBLICLY COME AND STAND WITH THE BUSINESS LEADERS AND WORKERS FRIDAY, JANUARY 14th AT 12:00 NOON ???FRIDAY, JANUARY...
Tom Morello: supporting sacked South Korean workers
2011-01-13 21:02:00 The Pulse Of Radio reports that RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello has thrown his support behind South Korean workers who manufactured guitars for Fender and Gibson and were fired from their jobs. According to NME.com, Morello has met with workers who have been protesting losing their jobs in 2007. The politically active musician may also make an appearance on Thursday (January 13) at a press conference the workers are holding at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) convention in California. more
Injured Workers About to Lose Rights: Illinois Legislators to Vote on Sunda
2011-01-07 21:52:00 Illinois Legislators continue to push through a Worker's Compensation Bill that will strip injured workers of their rights. The Bill is set to be voted on Sunday by the Lame Duck Illinois Lawmakers on Sunday, in what will be devastating for injured workers. The new Worker's Compensation Bill will greatly limit the amount collected on an injury at work by limiting your rights and resources when injured on the job. Monies for healthcare and compensation for lost time at work will be slashed. The new Bill will limit the length of time injured workers can receive care and benefits by 75-80%. The insurance companies will determine what doctor the parties can use and set the standards for treatment for injuries;...
Illinois Workers Are About To Get Screwed
2011-01-06 14:39:00 The word on the street is that in exchange for Republicans voting to raise our taxes, Democrats are going to gut the Illinois Workers' Compensation system. Should that matter to you? Well, imagine if you are at work and you lift a box and hear a pop in your back. 10 years ago you saw a doctor once after a car accident, but never since. Your best friend is a doctor and he tells you the top back guy you should see. Problem is you can't see that doctor. You have to go the physician your insurance company tells you to see. Of course that guy is a hired gun. He finds out that you had a car accident...
Workers To Lose More Employee Benefits: Illinois Worker's Compensation
2011-01-06 07:38:00 The Illinois State Legislative is in session working on a new Bill that would take away the rights and benefits for an injured worker. If passed, it would greatly reduce the ability for an injured worker in Illinois to collect worker's compensation, by instituting rules that only benefit the insurance companies. Again, our policy makers are cutting deals with one another as they posture to make sure their image is protected. The reason that a new bill for worker's compensation is even being considered has nothing to do with costs, since insurance companies currently pay a tax that largely supports the Illinois Industrial Commission, where cases are tried. Instead, it is being used as a "political football" by the Democrats...
Poor fed workers; they'll get only a 1.4% pay increase this year
2010-11-22 18:39:00 For years, the accepted wisdom was that working for the government wasn't all that lucrative. Not any more. With federal government employment at an all-time high, and President Barack Obama pitching for a 1.4 percent pay increase, roles have reversed. As USAToday reported:At a time when workers' pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees' average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds.The American public is catching on, with a vengence. Having read countless stories about increased hiring and higher wages and benefits for government workers, what Washsington calls "a pushback" has set in. Fully two-thirds polled by Rasmussen Reports want federal workers' salaries reduced by 10 percent over the next decade.Said the...
Public workers' pension funds are eating Illinois alive
2010-11-13 00:28:00 We keep hearing about how the state has "borrowed" cash from money set aside in the Illinois public pension funds to help balance the state budget, in effect, spending their pensions to pay for such things as state aid to schools. But the Kankakee Daily Journal, in an excellent editorial, points out that it's a double-edged sword. Not only is the state borrowing billions of dollars to make its required massive contributions to the pension funds, but the state also is selling its assets to help pay the pensions.The systems are now consuming assets to make payments. The Teachers Retirement System, the largest, has cannibalized $1.1 billion of assets since JULY to keep pensions coming.The editorial nicely explains some of the...
Election Day - 500 Get-Out-The-Vote Street Workers Dispatched From Rainbow/
2010-11-02 10:15:00 Citizen Action, NAACP, Rainbow/PUSH Grassroots GOTV CampaignTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2ndRainbow/PUSH Coalition 773-373-3366In The Field -- Mark S. Allen (773-630-3904)Mark Allen, former ass't to Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr/Field Director Returns to PUSH to help direct 500 street workers for November 2nd Black Grassroots GOTV Mark Allen, former ass't to Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr/Field Director Returns to PUSH to help direct 500 street workers for November 2nd Black Grassroots GOTVCitizen Action of Illinois, in partnership with the Chicago NAACP and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition is conducting and old school grassroots community organizing effort to reach up to 50,000 voters in Chicago's majority Black populated Wards to encourage them to vote on Tuesday, November 2nd. We started Starting Saturday morning, October 30th thru TODAY !!! Tuesday,...
As America Votes, Obama Angling to Take Vote Away From Workers
2010-11-01 17:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston As Americans prepare to head to the polls to exercise their right to a secret ballot on election day, the Obama administration is poised to roll back that right in the workplace. By Obama's orders, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is looking over a policy change that would undermine the protections for a worker's right to a secret ballot vote in union elections in the workplace. This elimination of a secret ballot is one of the policy changes that Big Labor has been pushing for several years now and is a chief component of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) -- better known as card check - a policy that Big Labor has been desperate...
Postal Workers Union Election on Hold Over Ballots Lost in the Mail
2010-10-07 21:42:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The incompetence of public employee unions strikes again. The American Postal Workers Union has been forced to extend its election because too many mail-in ballots have yet to get to their final destination. That's right, the postal workers election is on hold because the post office lost the ballots in the mail. The union's election committee was supposed to be counting those ballots this week in downtown Washington, D.C., following a tradition mail-in election. But the union announced that only about 39,000 ballots were turned in -- and that "a large number of union members had not received their ballots." Government workers doing their normal substandard work, eh? And these are the same people that want...
Chrysler Fires Auto Plant Workers Seen in Fox 2 Video
2010-09-30 15:02:00 If you’ve been following the story of the Chrysler workers at the Jefferson North assembly plant who methodically spent their lunch hours drinking and taking drugs, then you know that Chrysler wasn’t going to tolerate this and that action would be taken. An investigative reporter from the local FOX News station caught them in the ...
Michigan Home Healthcare Workers Sue State Over Forced Unionization
2010-09-16 16:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston So imagine that you are working out of your home or the home of a friend. Say you are helping care for your own developmentally disabled relative or that of another. You are working for a family, not a company, and you are not employed by the state. Then one day you get a letter in the mail that says you have been forced by the state to join a union and henceforth you will be paying dues by having some of your salary removed by the state and given to the union. Does this sound like you are living and working in America? It is if you are a home healthcare worker in the State...
Chicago School Safe Passage Workers Face Same Dangers As Police When Random
2010-09-10 00:09:00 Chicago School Safe Passage Workers Are Needed, Yet Face Same Dangers As Police When Random Acts Of Violence OccursOver the years, I have worked in the streets doing crime intervention and prevention work with the likes of CeaseFire, SafetyNet, United In Peace, Roseland Community Collaborative (RCC), Youth Voices Against Violence, St. Sabina, Peace In The Hood, and so many other community based groups and I know that the current allocation of funding for The Chicago Public Schools Community Safe Passage Workers were indeed a welcome sight during the first days of school by parents, community, and students. However, providing extra eyes and ears while students go and from school and reporting what you see is one thing, but I totally...
Challenge To Illinois Governor Quinn To Extend Workers Jobs Of "Put Il
2010-09-08 14:52:00 Challenge To Illinois Governor Quinn To Extend Workers Jobs Of "Put Illinois Back To Work" People who have jobs to "put Illinois BACK to work," can't now be the latest to be put OUT of work Today, Illinois Governor Quinn is scheduled to make a major announcement about Illinois and job creation yet the media advisory does not state any specifics, and people have to wait until later today to hear directly what Quinn's announcement will entail. But on behalf of thousands of workers who are nervous today that their jobs under the "Put Illinois Back To Work" will end on September 30th need to be assuied by Governor Quinn that those who have been designated to put Illinois...
O'Hare Airport irony: City workers not getting their "share"
2010-09-07 20:39:00 This is rich. The purpose of Mayor Richard M. Daley's O'Hare Airport expansion dream was to create jobs and contracts for his political machine and to consolidate his political power. Progress toward building a third Chicago regional airport (which everyone had supported until Daley arrived) threatened Daley's biggest generator of jobs. So he first came up with the screwball idea of building a new airport in Lake Calumet--which was so harebrained that it collapsed of its own weight--and then building a 21st century airport, in a 7,000-acre airport designed for the 1950s. That would be O'Hare.Everyone as suckered into believing it was a good idea, but now it' s not only running into financing problems (as predicted), but the beneficiaries of...
Explaining cosplay to co-workers
2010-08-13 01:21:00 When co-workers find out about my hobby, it can be interesting.
Steven Slater, Patron Saint of Frustrated Workers Everywhere
2010-08-12 03:17:00 My first office during my first year as a lawyer was next to the partner's office, where I would often hear the partner on the phone with the client as the client complained about me. Yeah, that was a real joy. I always dreamed of Steven Slater-ing it. (Yes, Steven Slater, you are now a verb!) Today, I am grateful ~1/ For the Steven Slaters of the world. I might not have those balls but I'm glad someone does. 2/ That I don't work there anymore. 3/ Oooh, now I can throw away my voodoo doll of that client! That'll free up a lot of room in storage. I'm kidding! It won't free up that much room. Follow me and...
As They Live off Us, Some Federal Workers Pocket Fraudulent SS Benefits
2010-08-08 20:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston News has emerged today of an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that has discovered hundreds of federal workers who are pocketing fraudulent Social Security disability payments. This is doubly galling, to say the least. Not only are these federal workers living off we the taxpayers, but now they are stealing from us outright. The Government Accountability Office issued a report that showed at least 1,500 federal employees may have wrongly received benefits. The group's investigation, which focused on two Social Security programs for people who have limited incomes due to disabilities, found several specific cases in which beneficiaries were earning well above the income cap while still receiving benefits. In one case, a Transportation...
Schwarzenegger Again Orders Furloughs for State Workers
2010-07-31 19:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston California has been ground zero in the war between over paid state employees unions and government budgetary concerns and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has leveled yet another salvo in that battle by again ordering more furloughs for state workers. After ending the previous program to furlough 200,000 state workers the Governor has introduced a scaled back plan after the state controller reported that state accounts would be in the red by October....
Wanted: Creative, Bright, Dedicated Workers for a Career in Banking
2010-07-07 17:23:00 Frank Novel & Brittani Campbell-Metropolitan Capital Bank As droves of college graduates hit the market this summer to look for jobs, where are the jobs these days in the banking sector? With the large regional and national banks still laying-off workers as they rebuild their portfolios, where should an entry level job candidate go to find a position? I'd suggest checking out community banks. There's a $135 million bank you probably have walked by many times and never noticed. Metropolitan Capital Bank is located in the historic Tree Studio north annex building on Ontario between State and Wabash. As a full service community bank they manage investment, consumer and commercial portfolios. Since opening in January, 2005 the... |
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