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Some holiday hiring going on

"There are millions of packages to be delivered, so why not work for UPS," said Williams, 25, who hopes his seasonal post will lead to a permanent job to replace the one he lost in February as a condominium time-share salesman. Across the region and ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Macy's,  Kmart

Strong ties profit Bay Area, India, report says

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute report, "Global Reach," tells a 290-page story of how immigration and commerce starting as early as the 1850s have knitted Silicon Valley, in particular, into the very fabric of the world's most populous ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Levi Strauss,  Hewlett-Packard,  Oracle,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Yahoo!

A huddle to help Nummi workers find new jobs

Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson underscored the magnitude of the challenge that stems from the decisions, first by General Motors and later by Toyota, to cease auto production at the Nummi plant they had jointly owned since 1984. "It's not just ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  General Motors,  White House,  Arnold Schwarzenegger

Troubled Bay Area banks begin to topple

Two weeks ago Friday, the FDIC closed the 14-branch Pacific National Bank and reopened it the next day under the ownership of US Bank. Last Friday, the FDIC closed the 63 U.S. branches of United Commercial Bank, which was taken over and reopened by ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: FDIC,  Matthew Anderson

Hewlett-Packard buys 3Com for $2.7 billion

The acquisition thrusts HP, the Palo Alto firm that makes everything from ink-jet printers to corporate data centers, into direct competition with Cisco Systems, the San Jose company that has been the dominant vendor for computer networking. "This is ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hewlett-Packard,  Cisco Systems, Inc.,  Oracle,  Sun Microsystems, Inc.,  Dell, Inc.

Report offers snapshot of union labor today

Article:Report offers snapshot of union labor today:/c/a/2009/11/10/BUHN1AI6PG.DTL Article:Report offers snapshot of union labor today:/c/a/2009/11/10/BUHN1AI6PG.DTL Quick links to the best of SFGate | Still can't find it? see Site Index Today's ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Center for Economic and Policy Research

Small businesses starting to hire

Since then, the startup has created seven jobs - a tiny step in the right direction at a time when the U.S. unemployment rate has risen to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent. Chief Executive Officer Brian Chesky says that hiring came only after he and the ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Small Business Administration

Unemployment rises above 10%

A report issued Friday by the Labor Department said the jobless rate jumped from 9.8 percent in September to its highest level since 1983. "This may be the toughest employment situation we've seen in the postwar era," said Mark Gertler, an economics ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Labor Department,  New York University,  PG&E,  Barack Obama

S.F. hotel workers open 3-day strike

The bullhorn chants that echoed over Union Square were a reminder of the two-week strike and 53-day lockout in 2004 that was followed by a two-year, union-organized boycott before the current contract was signed in 2006. It expired in August. Unite ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Unite Here

Exports through SFO, Port of Oakland rebound

UCLA Anderson Forecast economist Jerry Nickelsburg said a budding export recovery will boost industries from agriculture to high tech. But weak construction and job cuts in the state and local government sectors will dampen overall employment. "There ...

From TOM ABATE, San Francisco Chronicle,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: University of California, Los Angeles

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