Foundation donates
Foundation donates
YOUNGSTOWN
Home Savings Charitable Foundation recently donated a check for $1,200 to the Lisbon Area Chamber of Commerce.
Apply as a trainee
BOARDMAN
Applications for residential HVAC installer trainee will be taken at the Sheet Metal Workers Hall, 200 McClurg Road, from 9 a.m. until noon and from 2 to 4 p.m. Oct. 3-7.
Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 residential journeymen are earning $30.79 an hour in wages and benefits.
Qualified applicants must be 18 years old and eligible to work in the U.S., must have the physical ability to perform the work of the trade, have reliable transportation and pass a drug screening upon a conditional job offer.
Applicants must supply a high-school diploma or equivalent, high-school transcripts, a photo ID and proof of age. A basic aptitude test will be given at the time of the application.
For information, call the union office at 330-758-0112.
GM, Unifor reach tentative agreement
DETROIT
General Motors and the Canadian auto workers union Unifor have reached a tentative contract agreement, averting a strike that was threatened for midnight Monday.
Union President Jerry Dias said the deal will bring new products to the Oshawa assembly plant near Toronto and an engine plant in St. Catharines, Ontario. Dias said workers will get pay raises and lump-sum payments, and about 700 temporary employees at the plants will go full time if members ratify the deal.
With the agreement, Unifor won on its most important issue, securing a future for the two Ontario factories. The deal brings an end to fears that GM would close the Oshawa plant. The three cars it makes – Cadillac XTS, Chevrolet Impala and Buick Regal – are scheduled to go out of production in 2019. The factory also makes the Chevrolet Equinox crossover SUV, but its production there is scheduled to end in July of next year.
Retailers ramp up hiring for holidays
NEW YORK
Kohl’s plans to hire more than 69,000 additional workers for the upcoming holiday season to meet demand at more than 1,100 stores nationwide.
The department store operator said it started hiring in August for the holiday season and expects most jobs to be filled by the middle of November.
Several other retailers and businesses already have started ramping up hiring for the key holiday shopping season.
Nationwide, UPS will hire about 95,000 people for the holiday season to help meet shipping demands. Target has said it will hire more than 70,000 seasonal store workers, about the same as it hired last year. Macy’s Inc. said it plans to hire seasonal associates for about 83,000 positions.
Toys R US has not given an overall hiring figure, but expects to add at least 10,900 workers in five of its biggest markets.
Staff/wire reports
Selected local stocks
STOCK, DIVIDENDCLOSECHANGE
Alcoa Inc., .129.440.08
Aqua America, .71 30.670.17Avalon Holdings,2.900.08
Cortland Bancorp, .2815.61-0.38Farmers Nat., .1610.82-0.08
First Energy, 1.44 33.740.00
Fifth/Third, .5220.640.01
FirstMerit Corp.,21.610.37
First Niles Financial, .1212.000.00
FNB Corp., .4810.82-0.08
General Motors, 1.5231.65-0.07
General Electric, .9229.670.24
Huntington Bank, .28 9.71-0.01iHeartMedia Inc.,1.240.02JP Morgan Chase, 1.9266.460.27
Key Corp, .3412.19-0.07LaFarge, .3417.570.00
Macy’s, 1.51 34.96-0.26
Parker Hannifin, 2.52 122.03-0.36
PNC, 2.2090.360.25
Simon Prop. Grp., 6.60208.69-0.90
Stoneridge 18.40-0.08
Talmer Bank, 23.34-0.36United Comm. Fin., .12 7.16-0.11
Selected prices from Tuesday’s 4 p.m. close.