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09.24.2009 6:03 pm

Visteon to close Eureka plant at year’s end - fate of 94 workers unclear

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Visteon Corporation announced Thursday that it expects to cease production of vehicular interior components in Eureka by year’s end.

Visteon employs nearly 100 people at the two-year-old Eureka plant. The workers were informed of the possible closure Thursday afternoon.

Company spokesman Jim Fisher acknowledged…

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08.18.2009 10:42 am

State jobless rate steady; slight hiring bump in St. Louis

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate, 9.3 percent, remained constant in July, according to data released Tuesday morning by the Missouri Department of Economic Development.

The DED credited part of the stability to slight hiring increases in the state’s two major…

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07.06.2009 11:13 am

Questions about job retraining rise along with unemployment rate

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

With hope of saving jobs at Chrysler/Fenton all but gone, union, educational and governmental officials are turning the focus on retraining the workers who, until recently, earned a living assembling minivans and pick-up trucks at that location.

When it comes to preparing laid off…

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06.17.2009 1:15 pm

Funding for clean energy up, but Missouri green jobs lag behind

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A handful of officials from the private and public sectors participated in a teleconference with reporters Wednesday morning to to elaborate on where Missouri stands, vis a vis a national report by the Pew Charitable Trusts on the clean energy economy.

In…

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05.07.2009 3:31 pm

“Keep it Made in America” bus tour/rally comes to St. Louis Monday

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In the wake of Chrysler’s announcement of the permanent closure of its two Fenton plants in 2010  — a decision predicated in part by the shift of minivan production from St. Louis County to a Canadian facility — a coalition…

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05.05.2009 1:11 pm

Feds make funds available to Fenton Chrysler workers, suppliers

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One day after the start of what threatens to be a permanent shutdown of the Chrysler’s Ram pick-up truck assembly plant in Fenton, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Tuesday that the 1,000 workers affected by the closure are eligible for…

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05.01.2009 7:08 pm

Fenton bar owner mourns impact of Chrysler shutdown on friends

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

All who have witnessed the trauma of others losing their jobs knows exactly what Chris Gurley was going through Friday.

An engineer by trade, a year ago Gurley took the leap from the corporate grind to owner and proprietor of the…

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