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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | THE SMART VAN FEBRUARY 16, 2012  Laser-Eye Surgery Repair: SmartVan’s Job of the Week Dresser-Rand is in need of a machinist who can travel to customers’ businesses to operate on its equipment, which includes lathes and mills. The No, it’s not science fiction, and your tool belt won’t have a holster for a ray gun. But in this week’s SmartVan Job of the Week, you’ll get to play with lasers. For real. Repair Eye Surgery Lasers. The 411 : LenSxInc. | CONSTRUCTION LIEN BLOG DECEMBER 7, 2011  How To File A California Mechanics Lien This post, originally published as a Google Knol (which is being discontinued, yawn), is now repurposed for this blog. One of the reasons I want to republish this thing is because I consider it one of the most comprehensive how-to guides for California mechanic lien filings. This how-to guide really does give a start-to-finish explanation on how to file a California mechanics lien. How soon after? | | | | | |
| TRADESMEN INSIGHTS NOVEMBER 30, 2011 “Right Skills Now” Provides Fast-Track Training for Tradesmen For American manufacturing to be successful, employers need machinists that have the right skills, and they need those skills now. She helped launch the training program for CNC machinists in her home state. It’s not just for CNC machinists. The biggest issue I hear from both contractors and manufacturers is lack of work isn’t the issue, but lack of qualified people to do it is. Right Skills Now may not be the end all but it’s a model that can work for both on a regional basis. As a small business owner representing the manufacturing sector, Ms. Cooper, Ph.D., | CONSTRUCTION LIEN BLOG DECEMBER 7, 2011  How To File A California Mechanics Lien This post, originally published as a Google Knol (which is being discontinued, yawn), is now repurposed for this blog. One of the reasons I want to republish this thing is because I consider it one of the most comprehensive how-to guides for California mechanic lien filings. This how-to guide really does give a start-to-finish explanation on how to file a California mechanics lien. How soon after? | MIKE ROWE WORKS AUGUST 17, 2011 The Unqualified Workforce Is Prolonging Our Economic Woes He needs hundreds of technicians, welders, and machinists. The U.S. is not only suffering from a skills gap it is suffering from a skills mismatch. This article from the National Journal, by Michael Hirsh and Fawn Johnson reports on the ever widening space between those looking for work and companies who need to hire workers with technical and machinng skills. Desperately Seeking Skills. How an unqualified workforce is prolonging America’s economic misery. Eric Spiegel dwells in an alternate universe. percent. the U.S. subsidiary of the German engineering conglomerate. s, either. | GREEN GODDESS JULY 28, 2011  Ikea Me This voted 221-69 to have the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers represent them in collective bargaining, union and plant officials said. Thrilled to hear about this recent turn of events in Ikea's only US Factory. At Ikea’s Only U.S. Employees at the Swedwood plant in Danville, Va., Unions Ikea | | | | | | | |
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GREEN GODDESS | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011  And Nobody Knows - Ikea
of Machinists and Aerospace Workers said a majority of eligible employees had signed cards expressing interest. Bill Street, who has tried to organize the Danville workers for the machinists union, said Ikea was taking advantage of the weaker protections afforded to U.S. As I frequently blog about the "Swedish" behemoth Ikea and the truth behind their business and products I found another interesting article regarding their manufacturing plant here. Ikea's U.S. Workers complain of eliminated raises, a frenzied pace, mandatory overtime and racial discrimination. workers. stores. MORE >> -
GREEN GODDESS | FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2009 Maybe they mean Green as in "Alien"
That operation was a unionized facility providing good, middle-class wages to the Machinist Union members employed there. But at the same time, they adamantly rejected requests by the Machinist Union to remain neutral in any efforts to unionize the Oregon work force. I just received this update from the local Wash Tech group which is working to unionize those white collar tech jobs which many think are exempt from the practices of extinction, manipulation and discrimination often found in the more blue collar professions. His response, "its different for men." MORE >>
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