SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Caterpillar will hold job fairs May 22 and May 23 at Spokane Community College to fill up to 150 jobs at its new warehouse at Medical Lake.... full story ![]()
(Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc said Thursday that a bid by the United Steelworkers Union to re-open contract talks on behalf of workers in Milwaukee who make mining machinery had not resulted in a breakthrough and that no new meetings between the two sides were scheduled. The existing contract, which covers 800 workers that Caterpillar inherited with its 2010 purchase of...
yahoo.com (14 days ago)
The new owner of the former Warehouse Sports outdoor and sporting equipment outlets in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene will close the two stores in mid-March.
spokesman.com (3 months and 3 days ago)
Rolling layoffs at area Caterpillar Inc. production plants have begun and are expected to continue through May, a union official said Wednesday. “Rolling layoffs that started in January will probably go on until May. We thought things might turn around by April but it doesn’t look like they are,” said Randy Stevens, vice president of United Auto Workers Local 974, which...
pjstar.com (2 months and 13 days ago)
As a precautionary measure, Caterpillar Inc. is shutting down its East Peoria campus on Sunday.
pjstar.com (1 month and 3 days ago)
ATHENS, Ga. — The first group of Caterpillar workers is moving in to office space at the company’s new Georgia plant.
timesfreepress.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
Gunshots Tuesday morning at a Spokane Valley warehouse uncovered an ongoing gang-related federal investigation. Spokane County Sheriff’s Deputy Craig Chamberlin said a man arrived at a sheriff’s precinct in the Valley and reported another man had fired a shot at him just before 7 a.m. near the warehouse at 316 S. Dishman Road.
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Members of the United Steel Workers in Wisconsin are set to vote Tuesday on a proposed six-year contract with Caterpillar Inc. that would freeze wages, increase health care costs and give senior employees fewer protections.
chicagotribune.com (26 days ago)
About 800 Caterpillar workers in South Milwaukee, Wis., are voting on a six-year contract offer from the heavy-equipment maker.
wsj.com (24 days ago)
Heavy equipment giant Caterpillar Inc. says it is closing a tunnel-boring machine factory in Toronto by mid-2014, throwing 330 workers out of a job.
cbc.ca (19 days ago)
SPOKANE (AP) - A postal workers union in Spokane says two letters that appeared to contain the deadly poison ricin have been found. One of the letters was addressed to the Spokane Post Office and the other was addressed to a federal judge in Spokane. Preliminary tests indicate both letters con
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