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The latest hire at Lambert is Cornell Mays, who joinef the airport early this month as deputy directot of planningand development. An architecg by training, he formerly was an executived at SDGDesign Inc. in Prior to that, he was deputy directort of administration and airport affairs at Detroi Metropolitan WayneCounty Airport. The other new executives are Susan Kopinski, deputyu director of finance and administration, who was hired in and Kathleen Verret, manager in charge of the airport's properties who was hired latelast year.
Jeff Lea, spokesman for Lambert, said bringin g in new executives is part ofa long-term plan that Dick Hrabkoi has been implementing sinces he was named airport director in April 2007. Lea said the plan was developedr from a staffing study the airport undertookin 2006. "Thisa has been one of the director'sd main objectives," Lea said. "It puts Lambert in line with othert airports of our size in terms of staffing andmanagement responsibility." The new hires come as Lambertr is seeing increased business. In Lambert passenger volume increased 1.5 percent, the thirdd straight year of passenger The airportserved 15.3 million passengers.
In his new Mays will report directlyto Hrabko. He will oversew the airport's strategic planning and capital improvement and safety and environmental He also will be responsible for the selection of consultants and contractors hired to undertake design andconstruction projects. Lea said the work Mays will be doin g was previously handled separatelyt by the heads ofthree departments. Kopinski previously was chief financial officer forthe two-airport Cleveland Airport Prior to that, she was directotr of airport finance at Detroit Metropolitan Waynde County Airport, where Mays once In her new job, she serves as Lambert'e CFO, responsible for a $159 milliob operating budget and a $153 million capital improvemen t program.
Verret, a lawyer by training, previously was regional directore of operations for Avis BudgetGroup Inc.'e operation in Chicago. She will oversee the administrationof Lambert's properties and contracts, which generatew annual revenue of more than $165
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
GM files for bankruptcy, plans to transfer operations to Wentzville - Portland Business Journal:
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Some operations and equipment from a steel stamping plant inGranr Rapids, Mich., which is slated to close as part of the automaker's restructuring, will be transferrex to Wentzville, according to Bob Wheeler, a spokesman for the Wentzville It's not yet known how many, if any, Michigahn employees will opt to transfed to Wentzville, he GM officials called Wentzville Mayor Paul Lambio at 9 a.m. Mondayh to assure him the local plant wouldremain "It's good that they are shipping in work for this Lambi said. "That's a positive that corporate thinkds this plant willbe around.
" Still, Lambk said, rival automaker Chrysler plans to shutter its Fenton factore after investing $130 million in so it was important for Wentzvilles to not rely on GM so much and diversifyh its revenue stream. When Lambi took office seven years ago, Wentzville counted on GM for about 55 to 60 percengt of itstotal revenue. that's more like 15 percent of the city'sa $24 million general fund, becausre GM pays the city about $3 milliojn a year in real estate taxes, property taxexs and other fees, he said.
GM on Monday by the end of but the Wentzville plant was sparedbecause it’se the only plant where Chevrolet Exprese and GMC Savana vans are The Wentzville plant will still undergop a previously announced and other production cuts in June and July that will resulrt in the layoffs of 300 workers. Monday’s Chaptef 11 filing by the 101-year-old automaker is among the largesttin U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturing bankruptcy. GM listed $173 billion in liabilities and $82 billion in assets, according to the filedf in New York. GM to St.
largest privately held company, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and to Chapter 11, whicbh allows the company to operate while protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-tracik bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additional taxpayetr funds to restructure. The GM plan as detailexd by U.S. officials would allow a much smaller GM to emerge from courtf protection within 60 to 90 The automaker has not provided an updated target for job cuts but was lookingf toeliminate 21,000 U.S. factorty jobs from the 54,0009 union members it now General Motorsemploys 92,000 in the United Statesz and is indirectly responsible for 500,000 retirees. The U.S.
government would hold a 60 percent financial interesrt in areorganized GM, and the UAW woulf take a 17.5 percent stake. The governmentes of Canada and the provincee of Ontario have agreed to a 12 percentr ownership stake in exchange forfinanciaol aid. GM bondholders would get 10 percent. "It’s a bittersweeyt thing," Wheeler said. "You hate to have to go through the processx of closing plants andeliminatinv jobs, but look around, that’s what's goin on with a lot of industries. Hopefully we can hire people in the future and be the vibrant companyt weonce were.
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Some operations and equipment from a steel stamping plant inGranr Rapids, Mich., which is slated to close as part of the automaker's restructuring, will be transferrex to Wentzville, according to Bob Wheeler, a spokesman for the Wentzville It's not yet known how many, if any, Michigahn employees will opt to transfed to Wentzville, he GM officials called Wentzville Mayor Paul Lambio at 9 a.m. Mondayh to assure him the local plant wouldremain "It's good that they are shipping in work for this Lambi said. "That's a positive that corporate thinkds this plant willbe around.
" Still, Lambk said, rival automaker Chrysler plans to shutter its Fenton factore after investing $130 million in so it was important for Wentzvilles to not rely on GM so much and diversifyh its revenue stream. When Lambi took office seven years ago, Wentzville counted on GM for about 55 to 60 percengt of itstotal revenue. that's more like 15 percent of the city'sa $24 million general fund, becausre GM pays the city about $3 milliojn a year in real estate taxes, property taxexs and other fees, he said.
GM on Monday by the end of but the Wentzville plant was sparedbecause it’se the only plant where Chevrolet Exprese and GMC Savana vans are The Wentzville plant will still undergop a previously announced and other production cuts in June and July that will resulrt in the layoffs of 300 workers. Monday’s Chaptef 11 filing by the 101-year-old automaker is among the largesttin U.S. history and largest-ever U.S. manufacturing bankruptcy. GM listed $173 billion in liabilities and $82 billion in assets, according to the filedf in New York. GM to St.
largest privately held company, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, and to Chapter 11, whicbh allows the company to operate while protected fromits creditors, pushes GM into a fast-tracik bankruptcy and provides $30 billion of additional taxpayetr funds to restructure. The GM plan as detailexd by U.S. officials would allow a much smaller GM to emerge from courtf protection within 60 to 90 The automaker has not provided an updated target for job cuts but was lookingf toeliminate 21,000 U.S. factorty jobs from the 54,0009 union members it now General Motorsemploys 92,000 in the United Statesz and is indirectly responsible for 500,000 retirees. The U.S.
government would hold a 60 percent financial interesrt in areorganized GM, and the UAW woulf take a 17.5 percent stake. The governmentes of Canada and the provincee of Ontario have agreed to a 12 percentr ownership stake in exchange forfinanciaol aid. GM bondholders would get 10 percent. "It’s a bittersweeyt thing," Wheeler said. "You hate to have to go through the processx of closing plants andeliminatinv jobs, but look around, that’s what's goin on with a lot of industries. Hopefully we can hire people in the future and be the vibrant companyt weonce were.
" Downloa d a copy of the
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Among some of the venues her work has been shown are_ - Absolutearts.com
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Among some of the venues her work has been shown are_ Absolutearts.com Art in the Atrium Gallery; Arts Guild; AT&T & Lucent Corp; Barron Art Center; Bejing, China; Milltown's Borough Hall Gallery; Bouras Galleries; Brook, Chatham and Wellmont Theatres; Children's Specialized Hospital; Colgate-Palmolive Co.; ... |
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Workers at two MillerCoors plants ratify new deals - South Florida Business Journal:
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and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratifieed new, three-year contracts. The agreementes cover more than 900 employees at the two breweries and provids wage and pension increases over the course ofthe “Our members overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoors because they providee stability for their families,” said Jack director of the Teamsters Brewert and Soft Drink Workers Conference, whichu represents workers at the breweries.
“For the next threew years, our members at MillerCoorsx know that their wages and pension benefits will which is saying a lotin today’s The contracts call for no health care cost increasess for workers in the first year of the contractr and only minor increases for the second and third according to the union. The new deal also guaranteesd that employees who have retired or who will retirer during the course ofthe three-year contracts won’ be required to pay healthj care premiums.
“We value all generations of our so we made sure that there were improvement s for both active members at MillerCoors and the retirees who had pavede the way before with their long yearxsof service,” Cipriani said. The Teamstersd union represents 1,200 MillerCoor workers nationwide. The union also representss workers at the MillerCoors breweryin Calif. Negotiations for a new contract coveringh employees at the plant areundedr way. MillerCoors is a jointy venture between MillerBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coord Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., that launcheds in July 2008. MillerCoors operatez a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’s west side.
Workers at the Milwauker brewery are represented by Brewerg Workers Local 9 of the United AutoWorkerzs union.
and Fort Worth, Texas, have ratifieed new, three-year contracts. The agreementes cover more than 900 employees at the two breweries and provids wage and pension increases over the course ofthe “Our members overwhelmingly ratified these contracts at MillerCoors because they providee stability for their families,” said Jack director of the Teamsters Brewert and Soft Drink Workers Conference, whichu represents workers at the breweries.
“For the next threew years, our members at MillerCoorsx know that their wages and pension benefits will which is saying a lotin today’s The contracts call for no health care cost increasess for workers in the first year of the contractr and only minor increases for the second and third according to the union. The new deal also guaranteesd that employees who have retired or who will retirer during the course ofthe three-year contracts won’ be required to pay healthj care premiums.
“We value all generations of our so we made sure that there were improvement s for both active members at MillerCoors and the retirees who had pavede the way before with their long yearxsof service,” Cipriani said. The Teamstersd union represents 1,200 MillerCoor workers nationwide. The union also representss workers at the MillerCoors breweryin Calif. Negotiations for a new contract coveringh employees at the plant areundedr way. MillerCoors is a jointy venture between MillerBrewing Co., Milwaukee, and Coord Brewing Co., Golden, Colo., that launcheds in July 2008. MillerCoors operatez a major brewery and regional officeon Milwaukee’s west side.
Workers at the Milwauker brewery are represented by Brewerg Workers Local 9 of the United AutoWorkerzs union.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
UTSA doctoral accounting students eligible for new scholarship - Business First of Buffalo:
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UTSA accounting doctoral students are now eligible to applty for the Accounting Doctoralk Scholarsfellowship program. The UTSA College of Business is one of only 40 academicv programs nationwide to participate in the Accountinb DoctoralScholars program. Each year, the institutr will select 30 candidates nationwidew to receivea four-yea $30,000 stipend. The aim of the Accountinb Doctoral Scholars program is to increasde the number of doctoral accounting graduatesin America.
There is a criticakl shortage of accounting doctoral faculty teaching auditing and tax according to UTSA and the The goal is to increase the numbed of people with doctoral degrees in The plan is to encourage these individualss to then join the businesw faculty at schools throughouty the country so that they can teach undergraduate The institute founded the Accountingb Doctoral Scholars programin 2008. The program is funded by accounting firms. Candidates should have experiencew in audit or tax in a publicaccounting firm, be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and be working toward a careef as an accountingfaculty member.
Applications will be accepte d for the Fall 2010 classthrough Oct. 1. UTSA’s Collegew of Business is one of the 40th largest busineszs schools in the nation with morethan 5,800 Web site: www.adsphd.org
UTSA accounting doctoral students are now eligible to applty for the Accounting Doctoralk Scholarsfellowship program. The UTSA College of Business is one of only 40 academicv programs nationwide to participate in the Accountinb DoctoralScholars program. Each year, the institutr will select 30 candidates nationwidew to receivea four-yea $30,000 stipend. The aim of the Accountinb Doctoral Scholars program is to increasde the number of doctoral accounting graduatesin America.
There is a criticakl shortage of accounting doctoral faculty teaching auditing and tax according to UTSA and the The goal is to increase the numbed of people with doctoral degrees in The plan is to encourage these individualss to then join the businesw faculty at schools throughouty the country so that they can teach undergraduate The institute founded the Accountingb Doctoral Scholars programin 2008. The program is funded by accounting firms. Candidates should have experiencew in audit or tax in a publicaccounting firm, be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident and be working toward a careef as an accountingfaculty member.
Applications will be accepte d for the Fall 2010 classthrough Oct. 1. UTSA’s Collegew of Business is one of the 40th largest busineszs schools in the nation with morethan 5,800 Web site: www.adsphd.org
Monday, April 4, 2011
Behringer building wins LEED gold status - Austin Business Journal:
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recently received the 's Leadership in Energ and Environmental Design gold certification for anexistin building. The LEED Green Buildingy Rating System, which establishedf the criteria for judging greenbuildinhg designs, operations and construction, gave the 35-year-old building in North Carolina the award for its operationakl and maintenance best practices and greejn design features. Bank of Americw Plaza, which is part of the Behringe Harvard REITI Inc. is the first Behringer Harvard asse to achieve thegold rating. The commercia l real estate companyinvested $70,000 in portfolio equipment upgrades and employee practice in the property.
Dallas-based Behringer Harvard projects the improvements willyield $200,000 in annual savingx and will pay for themselves in about four months. Bank of Americsa Plaza's sustainability programs included energy audits that have loweredthe property'z operating expenses, plumbing retrofits that save 1.5 million gallons of watee each year and green cleanintg and recycling programs. Behringedr Harvards' Houston property Westway One previously earnecd LEED Silver Core andShelkl Certification, and 28 of the properties ownef by the company's investment programa were awarded the Energy Star labep for their energy management strategies.
recently received the 's Leadership in Energ and Environmental Design gold certification for anexistin building. The LEED Green Buildingy Rating System, which establishedf the criteria for judging greenbuildinhg designs, operations and construction, gave the 35-year-old building in North Carolina the award for its operationakl and maintenance best practices and greejn design features. Bank of Americw Plaza, which is part of the Behringe Harvard REITI Inc. is the first Behringer Harvard asse to achieve thegold rating. The commercia l real estate companyinvested $70,000 in portfolio equipment upgrades and employee practice in the property.
Dallas-based Behringer Harvard projects the improvements willyield $200,000 in annual savingx and will pay for themselves in about four months. Bank of Americsa Plaza's sustainability programs included energy audits that have loweredthe property'z operating expenses, plumbing retrofits that save 1.5 million gallons of watee each year and green cleanintg and recycling programs. Behringedr Harvards' Houston property Westway One previously earnecd LEED Silver Core andShelkl Certification, and 28 of the properties ownef by the company's investment programa were awarded the Energy Star labep for their energy management strategies.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Work force training funds will rise along with demand - Philadelphia Business Journal:
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This year, local WIBs will see federal support doublse or more for programzs because of extra fundingf from the American Recoveryg andReinvestment Act, but it’s not without additional challenges, locapl WIB directors said. The Philadelphisa Workforce Investment Board has seen a 30 percent to 40 percen uptick in traffic caused by theeconomiv downturn, which is similarly increasing demand for servicexs at other centers. Rising unemployment is pushing individualsthat haven’t traditionally sought out their services to their said Patrick Bokovitz, director of the Chestetr WIB.
WIBs are also seeint many of the occupations they have focused resources on becausde of a disproportion between supply anddemandf (such as health care, advancw manufacturing and information technology) comin back into equilibrium and dryinhg up opportunities, Francis J. Carey, executive directoe of the Delaware County WorkforceInvestment said. “An example is the numbed of registered nurses, which were in demand but now, because of different reimbursement and financial conditions faced bythe health-care system, that demand is leveling out so you are actuallyt seeing nurses being laid off,” Carey For WIBs such as which will receive an additional $1.
3 million; which will receive an additional $2.6 and Philadelphia, set to get an additionapl $14.1 million, the challenge is how to best use the infludx of federal stimulus “The question to consider is how do we handlde that increase knowing that it is not an increasee we can expect ongoing, with that understandinbg how do we best utilize those funds short term to help the most Bokovitz said of the stimulus funds that will be made availablde over a two-year period.
Chester will receive an additionalk $546,708 to assist dislocated workers, an additional $179,590 for disadvantaged adultsa and anadditional $546,708 for disadvantaged “We’ve done some surveys of employera over the last two months to gauge where the jobs are, where the trainings are and certainly we are taking step s to make sure when funds do come down we can utilizse those as quickly and appropriately as possible,” Bokovita said. Carey also plans to be prudenty about where Delaware County puts the fundsto use.
“You don’g want to be trainintg people for jobs when there are already people that have thosse credentials and jobs because then all you are doing is exacerbatinvg the excess in the labor Carey said. The Bucks County Workforce Investment Board willget $1.8 million in ARRA A large chunk of the ARRA funding WIBs receivr will be for summer youth-work programs, said Sallie Glickman, CEO of the Philadelphia Workforce Investmenyt Board, which is receiving an additional $7.4 millionb for disadvantaged youth, $3.2 millio more for disadvantaged adults and an increase of $3.5 millioh for dislocated workers.
“What was a driver probablyh is that when youthearn money, they spend Glickman said. “Also for a householf in distress, youth income is very Numerous competitive grants will also be made available under the federaplstimulus package, which state laboer agencies, higher education institutions, industry associations and multiple firmxs in an industry or sector can compete to “Gov.
[Ed] Rendell has told all of his cabinef secretaries that he wants to be very aggressiv in helping state agencies and also locall government and local community organizationws in applying for everyg grant possible so we can get the maximum amounfof money,” said Barry Ciccocioppo, press secretary for the Pennsylvaniaz Department of Labor & The Sustainable Business Networkj of Greater Philadelphia hopes to positio n the city to get a share of the $500 millionj for green-collar job training includefd in the recovery package.
“Thed jobs that are being createdr through the stimulus dollars have to be prevailing wage jobs and that virtually guarantees that jobs created with stimulusa dollars have to be good paying SBN Executive DirectorLeanne Krueger-Braneky said. Krueger-Braneky believes Philadelphia, which was host in Februaryh to the first meetinhg of Vice President Joe Biden and the Middle Class Task Force to discussgreem jobs, may have an edge. “I believde they were in Philadelphia because they recognizeMayorr [Michael] Nutter’s leadership, and this is a priorituy for him,” Krueger-Braneky said.
This year, local WIBs will see federal support doublse or more for programzs because of extra fundingf from the American Recoveryg andReinvestment Act, but it’s not without additional challenges, locapl WIB directors said. The Philadelphisa Workforce Investment Board has seen a 30 percent to 40 percen uptick in traffic caused by theeconomiv downturn, which is similarly increasing demand for servicexs at other centers. Rising unemployment is pushing individualsthat haven’t traditionally sought out their services to their said Patrick Bokovitz, director of the Chestetr WIB.
WIBs are also seeint many of the occupations they have focused resources on becausde of a disproportion between supply anddemandf (such as health care, advancw manufacturing and information technology) comin back into equilibrium and dryinhg up opportunities, Francis J. Carey, executive directoe of the Delaware County WorkforceInvestment said. “An example is the numbed of registered nurses, which were in demand but now, because of different reimbursement and financial conditions faced bythe health-care system, that demand is leveling out so you are actuallyt seeing nurses being laid off,” Carey For WIBs such as which will receive an additional $1.
3 million; which will receive an additional $2.6 and Philadelphia, set to get an additionapl $14.1 million, the challenge is how to best use the infludx of federal stimulus “The question to consider is how do we handlde that increase knowing that it is not an increasee we can expect ongoing, with that understandinbg how do we best utilize those funds short term to help the most Bokovitz said of the stimulus funds that will be made availablde over a two-year period.
Chester will receive an additionalk $546,708 to assist dislocated workers, an additional $179,590 for disadvantaged adultsa and anadditional $546,708 for disadvantaged “We’ve done some surveys of employera over the last two months to gauge where the jobs are, where the trainings are and certainly we are taking step s to make sure when funds do come down we can utilizse those as quickly and appropriately as possible,” Bokovita said. Carey also plans to be prudenty about where Delaware County puts the fundsto use.
“You don’g want to be trainintg people for jobs when there are already people that have thosse credentials and jobs because then all you are doing is exacerbatinvg the excess in the labor Carey said. The Bucks County Workforce Investment Board willget $1.8 million in ARRA A large chunk of the ARRA funding WIBs receivr will be for summer youth-work programs, said Sallie Glickman, CEO of the Philadelphia Workforce Investmenyt Board, which is receiving an additional $7.4 millionb for disadvantaged youth, $3.2 millio more for disadvantaged adults and an increase of $3.5 millioh for dislocated workers.
“What was a driver probablyh is that when youthearn money, they spend Glickman said. “Also for a householf in distress, youth income is very Numerous competitive grants will also be made available under the federaplstimulus package, which state laboer agencies, higher education institutions, industry associations and multiple firmxs in an industry or sector can compete to “Gov.
[Ed] Rendell has told all of his cabinef secretaries that he wants to be very aggressiv in helping state agencies and also locall government and local community organizationws in applying for everyg grant possible so we can get the maximum amounfof money,” said Barry Ciccocioppo, press secretary for the Pennsylvaniaz Department of Labor & The Sustainable Business Networkj of Greater Philadelphia hopes to positio n the city to get a share of the $500 millionj for green-collar job training includefd in the recovery package.
“Thed jobs that are being createdr through the stimulus dollars have to be prevailing wage jobs and that virtually guarantees that jobs created with stimulusa dollars have to be good paying SBN Executive DirectorLeanne Krueger-Braneky said. Krueger-Braneky believes Philadelphia, which was host in Februaryh to the first meetinhg of Vice President Joe Biden and the Middle Class Task Force to discussgreem jobs, may have an edge. “I believde they were in Philadelphia because they recognizeMayorr [Michael] Nutter’s leadership, and this is a priorituy for him,” Krueger-Braneky said.
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