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Voting on the five-year offer by members of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 will continu ethrough Wednesday. Union leaders are not making a recommendation to theitr members on thecontract offer, which the union complains would cut pensioh benefits by an average of $100,00 -- a conclusion disputed by management. “It’s a good contractg in a normal economy. It’w a great contract in this economy,” King Soopers spokeswomabn Diane Mulligan saidlast week. She said roughlgy 65 percent of workers would get raisess underthe company’s proposal. King Soopers is a Colorad o unitof Cincinnati-based (NYSE: KR).
Coloradol workers for two othet grocerychains — Pleasanton, Calif.-based SWY) and Boise, Idaho-based (privately held) — continure to negotiate separate deals with their employers. If King Soopersw workers rejectthe chain’s latest they will continue working without a contracr until an agreement is reached or a strike is Their contract expired May 9.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Unemployment rate unchanged at 12.2 percent - Business First of Columbus:
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percent, state officials said Monday. But the states added 3,600 construction jobs in June, a sign that the state’zs economy might be improving. The state normallu adds 2,000 construction jobs in The only other major sector to exceed expectation was leisureand hospitality, which addef 3,500 jobs, just above seasonal expectations. Oregom has the second-highest unemployment in the nation, behind Michigan. Oregon’ws unemployment rate is well abovethe 9.5 percent nationall unemployment rate. Also in June, manufacturing adder 1,000 jobs. The normal seasonal gain is Likewise, professional services cut 600 jobs when a gainof 1,90p0 is normal. Financial services shed 600 jobs.
The industruy normally gains 200 jobs in On Monday, officials revised the state’s May unemployment numberf down to 12.2, meaning the unemployment rate remained flat in Oregon’s unemployment rate in May was the highesgt level since the state began measuring it in 1976. More than 240,000 Oregonians were unemployedin June, up from 114,00p0 in June of last year. The state’ss unemployment rate was 5.9 percent last June. The federapl government will release updated unemployment statisticson Aug. 7. The state’a unemployment percentage reflects the number ofOregonians “actively seeking work.
” It includes workerxs receiving unemployment benefits as well as workers who have movedx to Oregon and not found a job. It also includew workers whose unemployment benefits haverun out. In order to generatw the number, the state surveys 1,000 households. Usintg federal population data, the state determines the unemploymeny percentage using amathematical formula. The federal governmen uses the same methodology to determine the nationalpunemployment percentage, but surveys 60,000 households.
percent, state officials said Monday. But the states added 3,600 construction jobs in June, a sign that the state’zs economy might be improving. The state normallu adds 2,000 construction jobs in The only other major sector to exceed expectation was leisureand hospitality, which addef 3,500 jobs, just above seasonal expectations. Oregom has the second-highest unemployment in the nation, behind Michigan. Oregon’ws unemployment rate is well abovethe 9.5 percent nationall unemployment rate. Also in June, manufacturing adder 1,000 jobs. The normal seasonal gain is Likewise, professional services cut 600 jobs when a gainof 1,90p0 is normal. Financial services shed 600 jobs.
The industruy normally gains 200 jobs in On Monday, officials revised the state’s May unemployment numberf down to 12.2, meaning the unemployment rate remained flat in Oregon’s unemployment rate in May was the highesgt level since the state began measuring it in 1976. More than 240,000 Oregonians were unemployedin June, up from 114,00p0 in June of last year. The state’ss unemployment rate was 5.9 percent last June. The federapl government will release updated unemployment statisticson Aug. 7. The state’a unemployment percentage reflects the number ofOregonians “actively seeking work.
” It includes workerxs receiving unemployment benefits as well as workers who have movedx to Oregon and not found a job. It also includew workers whose unemployment benefits haverun out. In order to generatw the number, the state surveys 1,000 households. Usintg federal population data, the state determines the unemploymeny percentage using amathematical formula. The federal governmen uses the same methodology to determine the nationalpunemployment percentage, but surveys 60,000 households.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
First EHR Products Certified For Meaningful Use - InformationWeek
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PR.com (press release) | First EHR Products Certified For Meaningful Use InformationWeek Thirty six electronic health record products are first to be certified as capable of meeting Meaningful Use Stage 1 criteria. By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee A ... Making 'Meaningful Use' Meaningful for Patients and Health Care Providers Intivia Awarded ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 Certification as Complete EHR ONC Announces EHRs Approved for Meaningful Use |
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Anchor Blue to close all Phoenix-area stores - Nashville Business Journal:
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The Anchor Blue shops at Tempre Marketplace, Desert Ridge Marketplace in metrok Phoenix, and a location in Bullhead City are amonv 46 underperforming stores closing in 12 Closing sales are expected to start Friday and last untilo all merchandiseis sold. “These strategic storer closings will help us significantly improvse operational performance as we proactively restructuree our business to conformto today’s market,” Thomase Sands, CEO of Anchort Blue Retail Group, said in a prepared statement.
Starting as Miller's Outpost in 1972, the company changed its name to Anchor Blue in thelate Boston-based Gordon Brothers Group, a global advisory, restructurintg and investment firm specializing in the consumer products, real estate and industrial is running the closing sales on Anchor Blue’ds behalf. For more:
The Anchor Blue shops at Tempre Marketplace, Desert Ridge Marketplace in metrok Phoenix, and a location in Bullhead City are amonv 46 underperforming stores closing in 12 Closing sales are expected to start Friday and last untilo all merchandiseis sold. “These strategic storer closings will help us significantly improvse operational performance as we proactively restructuree our business to conformto today’s market,” Thomase Sands, CEO of Anchort Blue Retail Group, said in a prepared statement.
Starting as Miller's Outpost in 1972, the company changed its name to Anchor Blue in thelate Boston-based Gordon Brothers Group, a global advisory, restructurintg and investment firm specializing in the consumer products, real estate and industrial is running the closing sales on Anchor Blue’ds behalf. For more:
Monday, October 4, 2010
PG&E signs another renewable power contract - San Francisco Business Times:
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The Northern California investor-owneed utility has signed another contract to buy power from a 92megawattg solar-thermal power project. will develop the Alpinde SunTower that willuse ESolar’s solar thermal technology. ESolar and NRG are partneringb to build 500 megawatts of solad thermal power across the southwesternUnited “ESolar’s power towers can be designefd in variable configurations and are easily scalable to meet the growingf and evolving needs of forward-looking power providers like PG&E,” said Bill Gross, CEO of ESolar.
Investor-ownesd utilities in California must sourcde 20 percent of their electricity sales from renewable sources by 2010 to complhy withstate law. PG&E has contractws to source more than 20 perceng of its power from renewable sources but only gets abouft 12 percent today because of the lengthy time it takes to get many of the renewablew technologiesto market. PG&E also has contracts to buy the powee producedfrom 1,300 megawatts of solafr thermal power plants from Oakland-based
The Northern California investor-owneed utility has signed another contract to buy power from a 92megawattg solar-thermal power project. will develop the Alpinde SunTower that willuse ESolar’s solar thermal technology. ESolar and NRG are partneringb to build 500 megawatts of solad thermal power across the southwesternUnited “ESolar’s power towers can be designefd in variable configurations and are easily scalable to meet the growingf and evolving needs of forward-looking power providers like PG&E,” said Bill Gross, CEO of ESolar.
Investor-ownesd utilities in California must sourcde 20 percent of their electricity sales from renewable sources by 2010 to complhy withstate law. PG&E has contractws to source more than 20 perceng of its power from renewable sources but only gets abouft 12 percent today because of the lengthy time it takes to get many of the renewablew technologiesto market. PG&E also has contracts to buy the powee producedfrom 1,300 megawatts of solafr thermal power plants from Oakland-based
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Tree of Life food distributor closing 2 sites, 41 jobs cut - The Business Review (Albany):
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, based in Indiana, told the state Department of Laborf on Monday that it will clos e the two sites sometime betweenb late August andearly September. That includes 39 jobs at a distributioh plantin Altamont, and another two peoplse at a freezer site in Albany. The 39-year-old companhy distributes natural, organic, specialty and ethnic foodsz inthe U.S., the Caribbea n and Canada. The work once performedx in Albany will be folded intoa new, 311,000-square-foot distributiob facility opening near Allentown, Pa. The new facility, whicb will create 140 jobs, will also assumw the duties of a distribution site inNew Jersey.
In a CEO Richard Lane said the new Pennsylvania facilitgy is the fifth time the company has consolidateed its distribution activitiessince 2004. “We need to continu e to improve our logistics infrastructure in ordedr to ensure that we profitably growour business. Consolidating our distributiohn centers while improving our overall capacityg isa must,” Lane said. Lane said the Albanyg distribution facility willclose Aug. 31.
, based in Indiana, told the state Department of Laborf on Monday that it will clos e the two sites sometime betweenb late August andearly September. That includes 39 jobs at a distributioh plantin Altamont, and another two peoplse at a freezer site in Albany. The 39-year-old companhy distributes natural, organic, specialty and ethnic foodsz inthe U.S., the Caribbea n and Canada. The work once performedx in Albany will be folded intoa new, 311,000-square-foot distributiob facility opening near Allentown, Pa. The new facility, whicb will create 140 jobs, will also assumw the duties of a distribution site inNew Jersey.
In a CEO Richard Lane said the new Pennsylvania facilitgy is the fifth time the company has consolidateed its distribution activitiessince 2004. “We need to continu e to improve our logistics infrastructure in ordedr to ensure that we profitably growour business. Consolidating our distributiohn centers while improving our overall capacityg isa must,” Lane said. Lane said the Albanyg distribution facility willclose Aug. 31.
Friday, October 1, 2010
City police courting business community for cash to fight crime - Baltimore Business Journal:
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Baltimore City Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein and city Policer Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld are slated to appear beforethe GBC'a board in January to make a pitch, said Donals C. Fry, GBC president. Sharfstein appeared before theGBC President's Advisorh Council on Dec. 18 to discuss Operation Safe a program aimed at reducing shootings and homicidesx inthe city. Baltimore recorded 275 homicides for the year asof Dec. 19 -- and has what is considerec one of the highest homicidee rates per capita inthe nation.
Based on the model in Chicago, the Operation Safe Streetas program uses outreach faith leaders and other community residents to intervene in conflicts and promote alternativesto violence. the mediators are ex-offenders with knowledge of the consequences. During Sharfstein's he passed out materials showinb that the program is in needof $1 milliobn from the private sector to guarantewe its expansion. GBC is willing to but at what level remainsa question, Fry said. Also up for debated is the exact program that GBC decidesto support.
"Wd would certainly consider any request that Commissionetr Bealefeld asksof me," Fry GBC has a history of raising private-sector funda for the city police department. In the business organization gave $500,000 to reducre homicides in the city. But there were not as many competingy interests atthat time. Baltimore business leaderx are being leaned on heavily at the local and state leveles to assist with what are typically government endeavorss backed bytaxpayer dollars. As the Baltimore policre force is turning to thecorporate community, Mayor Sheila Dixon is seekintg some backing for her "Cleaner, Greener" business leaders said this week.
Baltimore schools chief Andres Alonso is pursuinhg private foundationsfor $25 million to revive reform effortx and state officials are chasing investors for a $120 millionj dredging project at Seagirt Marine Terminal. "I don't think it shouls always be the business leaders to bethe go-to guys for the bottomless pit of said Matthew Doud, president of , an advertising agencg based in downtown Baltimore. "Youu can only go to the well so many times beforwe people justsay 'forgetg it.'" At the same time, Doud said Baltimorre businesses and residents can play a William W.
Carrier III, managing partner for , said his downtownb law firm typicallysupports "the things that affect us the Violence in the downtown area affects us As a result, Carrier said his firm would be willinv to donate to programs that fighrt crime. Last year, one of the firm's receptionistsx was killed on her way home from When she stepped off the bus in herOverlesa neighborhood, she was shot, Carrier In a less severe incident, one of Carrier's partnerds had her pocketbook stolen outside of the firm's headquarteres at 100 E. Pratt St.
"It has gottem to be a real problem," Carrier said of the city's "If it continues to get worse, I suspectt companies will leavethe city." Kirbh Fowler, president of , said the existence of his organizatioj that represents downtown businesses is proof of publicf and private collaboration. "The businessw community has a strong history of philanthropg and stepping up to help the public sectof solveits problems," he said. "Whiled there are limits, there's a sense that we'rde all in this together.
" Often, it is in challenginbg times when business and government can forgre creative solutionsand partnerships, Fowler Police commissioner Bealefeld said the business community can be a strong partner in reducing violent crime. Cash contributiona are needed tokeep programs, including Operation Safe Streets, viable, Bealefeld said. He also suggested that advertisin executives could support the police departmeng by volunteering their employees to devise a campaign aimed at recruiting officers. Accounting help is also neededx to find solutions tothe "overtimwe situation," he said.
The Police Departmenyt exceeded its overtime budget in fisca l year 2006 by millions of igniting criticism from elected officials andthe
Baltimore City Health Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein and city Policer Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld are slated to appear beforethe GBC'a board in January to make a pitch, said Donals C. Fry, GBC president. Sharfstein appeared before theGBC President's Advisorh Council on Dec. 18 to discuss Operation Safe a program aimed at reducing shootings and homicidesx inthe city. Baltimore recorded 275 homicides for the year asof Dec. 19 -- and has what is considerec one of the highest homicidee rates per capita inthe nation.
Based on the model in Chicago, the Operation Safe Streetas program uses outreach faith leaders and other community residents to intervene in conflicts and promote alternativesto violence. the mediators are ex-offenders with knowledge of the consequences. During Sharfstein's he passed out materials showinb that the program is in needof $1 milliobn from the private sector to guarantewe its expansion. GBC is willing to but at what level remainsa question, Fry said. Also up for debated is the exact program that GBC decidesto support.
"Wd would certainly consider any request that Commissionetr Bealefeld asksof me," Fry GBC has a history of raising private-sector funda for the city police department. In the business organization gave $500,000 to reducre homicides in the city. But there were not as many competingy interests atthat time. Baltimore business leaderx are being leaned on heavily at the local and state leveles to assist with what are typically government endeavorss backed bytaxpayer dollars. As the Baltimore policre force is turning to thecorporate community, Mayor Sheila Dixon is seekintg some backing for her "Cleaner, Greener" business leaders said this week.
Baltimore schools chief Andres Alonso is pursuinhg private foundationsfor $25 million to revive reform effortx and state officials are chasing investors for a $120 millionj dredging project at Seagirt Marine Terminal. "I don't think it shouls always be the business leaders to bethe go-to guys for the bottomless pit of said Matthew Doud, president of , an advertising agencg based in downtown Baltimore. "Youu can only go to the well so many times beforwe people justsay 'forgetg it.'" At the same time, Doud said Baltimorre businesses and residents can play a William W.
Carrier III, managing partner for , said his downtownb law firm typicallysupports "the things that affect us the Violence in the downtown area affects us As a result, Carrier said his firm would be willinv to donate to programs that fighrt crime. Last year, one of the firm's receptionistsx was killed on her way home from When she stepped off the bus in herOverlesa neighborhood, she was shot, Carrier In a less severe incident, one of Carrier's partnerds had her pocketbook stolen outside of the firm's headquarteres at 100 E. Pratt St.
"It has gottem to be a real problem," Carrier said of the city's "If it continues to get worse, I suspectt companies will leavethe city." Kirbh Fowler, president of , said the existence of his organizatioj that represents downtown businesses is proof of publicf and private collaboration. "The businessw community has a strong history of philanthropg and stepping up to help the public sectof solveits problems," he said. "Whiled there are limits, there's a sense that we'rde all in this together.
" Often, it is in challenginbg times when business and government can forgre creative solutionsand partnerships, Fowler Police commissioner Bealefeld said the business community can be a strong partner in reducing violent crime. Cash contributiona are needed tokeep programs, including Operation Safe Streets, viable, Bealefeld said. He also suggested that advertisin executives could support the police departmeng by volunteering their employees to devise a campaign aimed at recruiting officers. Accounting help is also neededx to find solutions tothe "overtimwe situation," he said.
The Police Departmenyt exceeded its overtime budget in fisca l year 2006 by millions of igniting criticism from elected officials andthe
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