Big turnout for job fair at Jacksonville Port Authority (The Florida Times-Union) The line of job hunters snaked back and forth through the Jacksonville Port Authority's parking lot, then extended up the sidewalks of Talleyrand Avenue. |
Nigeria: Irate Women Close NNLG Headquarters in Port Harcourt (AllAfrica.com) Women in Ogunabali community of Port Harcourt, yesterday, besieged the headquarters of the Nigeria National Liquified Gas (NNLG), disrupting activities over what they described as gross refusal of the gas firm to recognise its host community in the areas of job creation and other incentives. |
Port Authority Ready to Market J-R-S Site (WHIZ News Zanesville) The Zanesville-Muskingum County Port Authority will start to market the Job Ready Site soon. The site is in the EastPointe Business Park and Jerry Nolder, Executive Director for the Port Authority says although the site isn't completed yet, that doesn't mean they can't start the marketing process. |
Holly Hill police chief candidate for Port St. Lucie post (Daytona Beach News-Journal) Holly Hill Public Safety Director Don Shinnamon could be heading south to take the job of top cop in Port St. Lucie. |
Job losses confirmed at city port (BBC News) The owners of a Hampshire port are set to shed 45 staff due to the downturn in the economy. |
Markets hit new lows on global job losses (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Fears of a deep, long global recession intensified on Thursday as markets hit new lows in alarm at reports of record U.S. job losses, oil prices plunging below $50 a barrel and worry that U.S. automakers would not get a bailout from Washington. |
Mount Laurel woman appointed to port authority post (Burlington County Times) Mount Laurel resident Toni Proffitt Brown has been appointed chief administrative officer of the Delaware River Port Authority. |
Dems: Napolitano emerges for Homeland Security job (AP via Yahoo! News) Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, an early Barack Obama supporter from the southwestern part of the country, is the likely choice for the job of secretary of homeland security, a top Obama adviser said Thursday. |
Global job losses rise as recession plays on (Reuters via Yahoo! News) World economic misery spread on Thursday with forecasts of a global recession running well into 2009, Japan's exports to Asia falling for the first time in six years and job losses mounting. |
Pittsburgh Businesses Start Backup Plan For Possible Port Authority Strike (WTAE-TV Pittsburgh) There is a threat of a Port Authority strike, and now companies in downtown Pittsburgh are coming together for a backup plan to get more than 100,000 people to work. |