The Dearborn-based credit union that took over Ann Arbor-based Midwest Financial Credit Union in October has laid off between 10 and 15 ex-Midwest employees, sources said. DFCU Financial, Michigan's largest credit union with more than $3 billion in assets, had indicated that it would not cut any former Midwest Financial ...
Matt Young, owner of Event Management Solutions, speaks to a group of people who showed up for the Open House Thursday at the U-M football stadium. Young expects to hire close to 200 vendors, who will sell bottled water, soda pop, Crackers Jacks and other snacks. An old tradition is ...
Washtenaw County's unemployment rate rose to 10.0 percent in July, reflecting the worst employment picture in the Ann Arbor region in 13 months. The jobless rate rose from 9.3 percent in June to 10 percent in July, according to statistics released today by the Michigan Department of Energy, Labor and ...
The University of Michigan Medical School expanded its faculty personnel by 24 percent from its 2005 to 2010 fiscal years, including 184 new faculty members from the 2009 to 2010. U-M said today that with 2,254 faculty members today, the Medical School now stands at “its highest point ever” in ...
About 200 workers at the Ford Motor Co.-controlled Automotive Components Holdings plant in Milan will be displaced, a spokeswoman confirmed this morning. ACH is cutting the fascia manufacturing line at the 1.28-million-square-foot plant, which employs about 600 workers, said Della DiPietro, a spokeswoman for ACH. The cuts will be phased ...
.regional-page .post_content .image_center {width:200px;float:right;} Jim Karnopp isn’t someone to sit still. The owner of Café Luwak is continuing to refine his vision for the popular Depot Town eatery, recently adding a sit-down lunch service along with grilled hamburgers and chicken sandwiches. Karnopp recently put out the call for lunch-time servers, ...
A Miami woman who exhausted her unemployment aid needs to pay bills. A Phoenix job-seeker wants a greater sense of purpose. A Boston woman has heard that hiring is picking up. The economy absorbed a flood of 805,000 new job-seekers last month — the sharpest monthly influx in seven years. ...
Ann Arbor-based Altarum Institute, a nonprofit that focuses on health care research and consulting, has received a $19.6 million federal grant to help create and manage a new statewide organization designed to improve adoption of electronic medical records. Backed by a coalition of 13 major health care organizations throughout the ...
For the 600,000 Michigan workers seeking employment, finding a job can seem like panning for gold. The search is laborious and it can feel altogether fruitless.That’s why human resources executives from a few of the Ann Arbor region’s top employers gathered Monday night to offer advice for jobseekers in a ...
When Toyota Motor Corp. last week recalled millions of vehicles and suspended plant operations because of sticking accelerator pedals, no one could have blamed JAC Products Inc. for asking, "Why us?" The Saline auto supplier, which specializes in roof racks, has withstood a gut-wrenching economic recession in perhaps the worst-hit ...
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm proposed a broad plan on Friday to cut government costs, including a proposal she hopes will coax thousands of eligible state employees and public school employees into retirement.
Borders Group Inc. this morning confirmed that the book seller is laying off 124 corporate employees - 88 of them based at its Ann Arbor headquarters - plus another 40 at its warehouses. The move - representing about 10 percent of its corporate workforce and 12 percent of staff at ...
BREAKING NEWS: Borders announces 164 layoffs Thursday morning; 124 corporate positionsAnn Arbor watched Borders Group Inc. grow into the second largest book retailer in the nation, remaining the home of its corporate headquarters even as the chain formed the core of a company that grew to hundreds of stores generating ...
The student-led MPowered Entrepreneurship club at the University of Michigan drew some 2,000 students to its third annual career fair Tuesday for businesses in the Ann Arbor region.
The University of Michigan and Ann Arbor's two largest health systems remained the region's top employers in 2009, according to data compiled by Ann Arbor Business Review.
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