Job fair set Tuesday

Job fair set Tuesday

AUSTINTOWN

Staff Right Services LLC will have a job fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Holiday Inn Express, 5633 Cerni Place.

There will be recruitment for positions at local steel mills including millwrights, machine-maintenance workers, industrial electricians and laborers.

These positions are full time, temporary-to-hire with consistent overtime opportunities.

Staff Right managers will conduct on-site applications and interviews. Applicants should bring two forms of identification. Resumes are desirable but not required.

YBI official in DC

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Barb Ewing, COO of the Youngstown Business Incubator in the city’s downtown, is participating in a congressional briefing on the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation Day on Capitol Hill today.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will host a panel discussion with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and state Reps. Joe Kennedy and Rom Reed for members of Congress and their staffs on the importance of the Revitalize American Manufacturing Innovation Act.

RAMI would create a network of up to 15 regional institutes across the country. The current institutes, including America Makes in Youngstown, are pilot programs that have not yet been authorized by Congress.

Heinz baby food

PITTSBURGH

The H.J. Heinz Co. will resume food production in the city for the first time since 2002, when the ketchup giant sold its production plant to Del Monte Foods.

Heinz officials say they’re scheduled to begin making jarred baby food. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports the baby food will be shipped to Canada.

That’s happening because Del Monte several years ago sold its baby food and soup business to TreeHouse Foods of Oak Brook, Ill., which has continued to make soup at the former Heinz plant on the city’s north side.

Now, Heinz is contracting with Bay Valley Foods — a TreeHouse subsidiary — to make jarred baby food at the plant under the Heinz name.

The baby food that will be produced in Pittsburgh had been manufactured at a Heinz plant in Leamington, Ontario.

Record high for Dow

NEW YORK

The stock market got the reassurance it wanted from the Federal Reserve on Wednesday.

The U.S. central bank signaled that it would keep its short-term interest rate near zero for a while yet, and investors pushed the Dow Jones industrial average to a record high. Low rates have been a boon to the market by helping stimulate the economy and making stocks a more-attractive investment than bonds.

Vindicator staff/wire reports