CHICAGO-Laid off nearly a year, Ford workers in Louisville are jumping at the chance to work at the expanding Chicago Assembly Plant. Chicago is adding a second shift to produce the Ford Taurus and Lincoln MKS and may add a third when it inherits production of a redesigned Ford Explorer in late fall. MORE
WINSTON-SALEM, NC-Workers at the Dell assembly plant here will get a third extension before the plant closes. The plant is now scheduled to close in October 2010. MORE
LYONS, PA-One person suffered smoke inhalation when a fire erupted in the dust collection system at East Penn Manufacturing Co. Inc. here Thursday night. The plant assembles lead-acid batteries. MORE
NEWBERRY, SC-Caterpillar plans to more than triple employment at its four-year-old diesel generator plant here. Within four years, the company expects to add up to 500 workers to the 190 already employed at the plant. MORE
CLEVELAND-In a sign that economic activity is increasing, almost half of North American metalforming companies expect their orders to rise during the next three months, according to the latest report from the Precision Metalforming Association. MORE
PITTSBURGH-Alcoa is jointly testing an advanced solar technology with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab. The goal of the project is to make concentrating solar power technology competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy. MORE
DETROIT-GM wants to pay factory workers making advanced technology items for electric cars less than $14 per hour-lower than a controversial second-tier wage reached in the 2007 national contract. MORE
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