plus 3, Leadville deputy shoots 30 students with Taser at job ... - Coloradoan

Leadville deputy shoots 30 students with Taser at job ... - Coloradoan
Carbon Motors job fair attracts 1,300 - Star-Press
US employers added most jobs in 3 years in March - Danbury News-Times
Online Marketing Company Hosts Career Fair - WSOC-TV

Leadville deputy shoots 30 students with Taser at job ... - Coloradoan

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 04:48 PM PDT

LEADVILLE - Approximately 30 students voluntarily chose to be shot with a Taser by a sheriff's deputy during an annual career fair on Thursday. The Tasings were not authorized by the school district.

The incidents happened at Lake County High School where the Lake County Sheriff's Office had a booth.

Lake County Sheriff Ed Holt confirms a deputy did attend the career fair.

The school superintendent told 9NEWS one of the deputies decided to try a "dry-stun technique" on students.

There are no reports of serious injuries, but a letter did go out to parents telling them about the situation and asking them to check their children for any marks.

Leadville Police Chief Mike Leake says the Lake County District Attorney's office is now handling the case.

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Carbon Motors job fair attracts 1,300 - Star-Press

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 05:30 AM PDT

CONNERSVILLE, Ind. -- In suits and ties and shorts and tees, engineers sat next to production workers Monday for the same purpose: They want to work for Carbon Motors.

An estimated 1,300 people attended the afternoon session of the Carbon Career and Information Day on Monday on the Carbon Motors Campus. A second evening session at the site formerly owned by Visteon was expected to draw an even larger crowd.

Aaron Hall, laid off from his construction job since last August, drove from Sunman to learn more about the "green" jobs Carbon is offering. The company plans to hire 1,550 people when production starts on the Carbon E7, the first purpose-built police patrol vehicle in the world.

"I'll drive anywhere for a chance to work," Hall said.

Carbon officers said working for the company requires two essential skills: computer literacy and self-direction.

Computers will be everywhere on the campus, including the production line, said Alan J. Bratt, chief production officer.

Touch-screen monitors will be at each assembly location and production workers will "self-certify" they've completed their work on each vehicle, he said. Production will be "build-to-order."

Production workers will be cross-trained to do all assembly work and all workers will be expected to work without direct supervision, Bratt said. Quality control will be everyone's responsibility, he said.

Assembly technicians will need an associate degree in engineering, and quality improvement certification of Sigma 6 Greenbelt or higher.

The company will emphasize wellness and diversity in its work force, said Keith Marchiando, chief financial officer. The Carbon campus will be tobacco- and drug-free.

The company that encourages women, minorities and veterans to apply for positions also won't tolerate harassment, Marchiando said. The Monday afternoon jobs event drew many more men than women.

The company will have a market approach to wages, Marchiando said. Because it expects to receive a federal loan, it will pay prevailing wages under the Davis Bacon Act, he said.

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US employers added most jobs in 3 years in March - Danbury News-Times

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:49 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation added jobs at the fastest pace in three years last month as factories, stores, hospitals and the census all brought workers on board — the surest sign yet that the worst employment market in a generation has finally snapped back.

The unemployment rate stayed at 9.7 percent for the third month in a row, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists actually consider that a hopeful sign because it means more people are encouraged and starting to look for work.

"This recovery is for real," said Chris Rupkey, economist at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.

Overall, the economy added 162,000 jobs for the month. About a third of the gains came from the census, with much more to come: About 700,000 head-counters will be hired to tally the nation's population this spring.

Economists took heart that even aside from the population count, the private sector added 123,000 jobs for the month, the most since May 2007.

Hiring is not expected to be robust enough anytime soon to significantly bring down the unemployment rate. Economists think unemployment will probably still be above 9 percent by the November midterm elections, making Democratic and Republican incumbents in Congress vulnerable, particularly in hard-hit states such as Michigan, Nevada and Rhode Island.

President Barack Obama seized on the positive numbers in the jobs report and took partial credit for them. But with 15 million people still out of work, he also acknowledged that the economy will be recuperating for a long time to come.

"We are beginning to turn the corner," he told workers at a battery plant in Charlotte, North Carolina, that received government stimulus money. But he added: "We shouldn't underestimate the difficulties we face."

House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said a jobless rate near 10 percent is "no cause for celebration." The unemployment rate peaked at 10.1 percent in October, a 26-year high.

No one disputes that the job market is still bleak. Counting people who have given up looking for work and part-timers who would prefer to be working full-time, the so-called underemployment rate rose to 16.9 percent in March.

But Friday's report from the Labor Department at least provides firm evidence that the job market is on the right track, even if it will be a long journey for the millions of Americans who want work but cannot yet find any.

"The economy is moving in the right direction, albeit at a torturously slow pace," said Paul Ashworth of Capital Economics.

Economists do not expect the jobless rate to drop to something more normal — like 5.5 percent to 6 percent — until the middle of this decade.

In the meantime, economists are concerned that hiring now appears to be concentrated among large companies — a sign that small businesses, which typically lead job creation in the early stages of a recovery, are having difficulty getting financing from banks.

In March, the education industry led job creation, followed by health services and government. Those sectors, plus others like the hospitality industry, manufacturing and retail, will continue hiring as the recovery picks up, economists say.

Although construction companies added jobs last month, it was seen as a temporary snapback from February, when snowstorms along the East Coast idled many construction jobs. The real estate market is still fragile in much of the country.

Other pockets of weakness include financial services, publishing and state and local governments, which are grappling with budget crises from coast to coast.

Nationwide, average hourly earnings fell by 2 cents in March to $22.47. Stagnant wages are a big reason people are still hesitant to spend money, a drag on the overall economy.

The number of people out of work six months or longer reached 6.5 million in March, a new high. The number of people forced to take part-time work in March rose by 263,000, to 9.1 million.

The worst recession since the 1930s has wiped out 8.2 million jobs, making the competition for any openings fierce. On average, there are five or six unemployed people competing for each opening, according to government data.

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AP Business Writers Chris Leonard in Kansas City and Anne D'Innocenzio in New York contributed to this report.

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