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Transportation, workplace education on Tim Kaine's mind in Danville
WDBJ7 ReporterInfrastructure and education, U.S. Senate Candidate Tim Kaine told workers today in Danville that's what he can bring to the table to turn around the economy. Kaine spent much of his morning in Southern Virginia making a stop at EBI, a subsidiary of Ikea...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees
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Swedwood's agreement turns costly for Danville, Pittsylvania County
WDBJ7 ReporterIt's an agreement gone wrong. Now Danville and Pittsylvania County will have to repay a $900,000 grant used to build a railroad spur a company never used. In 2006 the IKEA furniture maker Swedwood was expected to bring heavy rail traffic through Southern...Tags: Pittsylvania County, Economy, Business and Finance, Heavy Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering, Companies and Corporations
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Union workers at Danville IKEA plant approve new contract
Union workers at an IKEA subsidiary's plant in Virginia have approved a three-year contract.
The Danville Register and Bee says members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers ratified the contract with Danville Swedwood...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Unions
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Netherlands-based company coming to Pittsylvania Co., creating 31 jobs
An IKEA subsidiary supplier will establish its first U.S. operation in Pittsylvania County.
Governor Bob McDonnell announced Friday Axxor Group, a Netherlands-based company, will invest $4.96 million to establish an operation in the Ringgold East...Tags: Economic Policy, Pittsylvania County, Economy, Business and Finance, Bob McDonnell, Consumer Goods Industries
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IKEA workers in Danville voting on unionization
Workers at IKEA's only U.S. manufacturing plant are deciding whether they want to unionize.
Approximately 328 workers are scheduled to vote Wednesday at Swedwood Danville, a subsidiary of the Swedish furniture giant. The results should be available...Tags: Human Interest, Career and Workplace, Employees, Elections, Politics
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Union: IKEA workers vote to unionize
DANVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Workers at IKEA's only U.S. factory in Virginia say they want to belong to a union like thousands of Europeans who work for the Swedish furniture giant.
The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers say employees...Tags: Human Interest, Career and Workplace, Employees, Collective Contract, Unions
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Union vote comes to another Danville factory
Reporter340 Danville factory workers are voting Monday and Tuesday on a question many say there's only one answer to. Should EBI become unionized? First shift workers leaving the company wouldn't talk on camera but told news7 a union would improve the working...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Elections, Unions, Politics
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Tim Saunders' Blog
February 24, 2012
If you watched the 5:00 news on Thursday, you may have seen me delivering a live report while driving a car. That was not a trick. I really was driving and communicating live with Jean Jadhon. Given all the amazing technology that&...Tags: Labor Day, Pittsylvania County, Busch Gardens Orlando, High School Sports, Virginia Tech
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