Chattanooga Plants Closing, Work Going Overseas Found: 16 Hours 54 Minutes ago WTVC 9 News - There is more bad news for our local economy as two Chattanooga manufacturing facilities will be closing, adding hundreds of unemployed people to the tens-of-thousands now looking for work. ...
Officials 'in shock' as Alcoa announces layoff of 450
Found: 20 Hours 3 Minutes ago Knoxville News Sentinel - ALCOA - Alcoa aluminum company is cutting 13,500 jobs - 13 percent of its worldwide workforce - including 450 employees at its Alcoa, Tenn., operations, leaving city officials "in shock." The Pittsburgh-based manufacturer is cutting all smelting at its Alcoa, Tenn., plant as part of an 18-percent reduction in annual primary aluminum output. That's a total drop in smelting output of 750,000 metric tons per year.
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Chattanooga: Stowe closes textile plant; 350 here lose jobs Found: 1 Day 19 Hours 55 Minutes ago Times Free Press - R.L Stowe Mills announced Monday the yarn mill will shut down and put about 550 people out of work, including 350 in the Chattanooga area, officials at the company said Monday...
Riverdale girls ranked second, MTCS 10th in state Found: 2 Days 3 Hours 28 Minutes ago Daily News Journal - In the first Associated Press high school basketball rankings of the season, Riverdale girls are ranked No. 1 in the state in Class AAA. Middle Tennessee Christians girls were ranked tied for 10th in the Class A poll.No local boys teams were ranked. The girls and boys rankings:...
Local briefs: THP roadblocks; road conditions; Dixie enrollment Found: 5 Days 14 Hours 13 Minutes ago Jackson Sun - The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct traffic enforcement roadblocks today in Henderson County, looking for unlicensed drivers and unsafe vehicles, according to a news release....
Hay-Adams hotel will house the Obamas for now Found: 5 Days 15 Hours 28 Minutes ago The Tennesseean - WASHINGTON ?After Saturday, the Obamas of Hyde Park, the future first family of America, become vagabonds. Fresh from their Hawaii vacation, having grabbed the winter coats from their Chicago home, they will move into the first of two spots of temporary housing in Washington....
Chattanooga: Except for Astec, local stocks plunge Found: 6 Days 20 Hours 50 Minutes ago Times Free Press - Chattanooga-area floorcovering companies, banks and retail-oriented businesses all felt the pain of the sharpest economic pullback in decades late last year....
