Unions see opportunity at N.C. plant
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For Hector Pizzaro, it wasn't the rigors of a bloody workday spent slicing freshly killed hogs along an assembly line that led him to walk off the job. It was the chance he might lose that job.
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Dell Inc. said on Tuesday it plans to  open a third U.S. manufacturing plant, based in North Carolina  with 1,500 workers, in a rare example of a U.S. high-tech  company expanding domestic production.
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When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity Â an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wind energy production regions.
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Four Chrysler LLC plants in the Detroit area voted to approve a proposed four-year contract for workers represented by the United Auto Workers union, boosting the chance that the contested labor pact will be ratified this week.
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FLINT, Mich., Sept 24 -- Thousands of workers streamed out into the summer heat here, in this city that has weathered many GM strikes, heading first to union halls and then, armed with picket signs, back to plant gates after the autoworkers union called a national strike.
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A group of white-collar engineers at one of Visteon Corp.&#39;s suburban Detroit plants voted to join the United Auto Workers union.
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North Carolina celebrated two of its national championship teams on Saturday. Then the current Tar Heels showed they might be capable of winning a title of their own.
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By Kerry Hall, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Dec. 19--Online photo provider Shutterfly Inc. said Monday it will open a $31.5 million manufacturing plant near Charlotte and hire more than 230 full-time employees during the next three years.
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About 40 operation and engineering employees at New England Sports Network will vote Thursday whether to join the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, a union that is part of Communications Workers of America, one of the nation's largest unions.
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Local leaders with the United Auto Workers union on Thursday began preparing to walk picket lines as soon as Friday if contract talks with General Motors Corp.  break down after the UAW singled out the No. 1 U.S. automaker as its strike target.
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Almost 800 jobs are created at Nissan's Sunderland plant to help meet demand for the new Qashqai.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- Upper Catawba River basin leaders believe they got the state's attention with their vocal opposition to Concord's and Kannapolis' request to draw water from the Catawba River.
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About 3,400 union workers at four BF Goodrich plants in Indiana and Alabama have approved a new contract that will save the company about 20 percent of its annual labor costs at four older plants.
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THE North-East could see investment and employm
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General Electric Co. in Lynn is hiring new laborers. The 18 graduates of the E-Team machinists/welders training program found jobs. Aerospace machinists at a GE vendor are thinking about organizing. Child-care workers at Job Options Inc. in Lynn have a first contract.
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TORONTO (CP) - Thousands of jobs could be created over the next two years by two Big Three automakers closing in on official announcements of significant plant expansions in southern Ontario, the president of the Canadian Auto Workers union said Friday.
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MONCTON, N.B. (CP) - Hundreds of striking hospital workers demonstrated outside a Moncton hotel where Premier Bernard Lord and his Atlantic counterparts were meeting Tuesday.