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Our friends at Spectra Personnel Services sent us this new update on some new job opportunities.  Below is the list of the current openings for this week.  For additional information about the jobs go to www.spectrapersonnel.com and click on Careers!

• Technical Financial Reporting Accountant – Calhoun, GA
• SAP CRM Business Analyst – Calhoun, GA
• Senior Web/ColdFusion Developer – Hickory, NC
• Plant Controller – Raleigh, NC
• Business Analyst – High Point, NC

To Apply please send your resume to recruitment@spectrapersonnel.com or apply directly online at www.spectrapersonnel.com. 

Greetings!

It appears that our fellow bloggers from Spectra Personnel requested a mass communication be sent to all members…

They have some new job opportunities and they need some help. 

• Sr. Cognos Developer – Charleston, VA
• Plant Controller – Raleigh, NC
• Business Analyst – High Point, NC
• Sr. Hyperion Applications – Winston Salem, NC

To apply submit resumes and cover letter to Recruitment@spectrapersonnel.com. 

It appears that they will be updating some new orders coming in the next few days.  Stay posted.

We have gathered a few bits of information from different parts of the country.  Some of the news we found was great and some very hard to swallow.  

• Solo Cup – announced it was closing it’s Owning Mills plant by mid-2012.  This move would eliminate 540 employees in the Baltimore county area.
• PC Magazine reported that Sprint 4G Network to be the fastest mobile broadband in the Baltimore area.
• BlueChip Energy has begun phase one of the 10 megawatt solar farm project in Lake Mary
• Bank of America has pledged 10 billion to small, midsize, and disadvantaged businesses.  The five year plan is designed to help  small business and disvantaged business gain opportunities. 
• Men’s Wearhouse looking to expand business by branching out into womens apparel next year.
• Governor Sonny Perdue nixes the Jobs, Opportunities, and Business Success Act of 2010 that would include a 50% reduction in capital gains taxes and tax credits for “angel investors”.

Stay posted as we continue to update with news and economy trends happening across the US.

Feeling tapped out after stimulus, ObamaCare and everything else? Senator Bob Casey has one more deal for you. If the Pennsylvania Democrat gets his way, U.S. taxpayers will also pick up the astonishing tab for poorly managed union pension plans.

Mr. Casey is gathering support for his curiously named “Create Jobs and Save Benefits Act,” a bailout for union-run retirement plans. Similar to House legislation from North Dakota Democrat Earl Pomeroy and Ohio Republican Patrick Tiberi, the bill would transfer tens of billions of dollars worth of retiree liabilities to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, i.e., to taxpayers.

At issue are multi-employer pension plans, in which companies across an industry pay into a single pension pool. The plans are predominately run by unions and for years have distinguished themselves by poor management. The Labor Department in 2008 listed 230 multi-employer plans that were either endangered (less than 80% funded), or critical (less than 65% funded), or that had applied to government for funding relief. By 2009 that number had soared to 640.

The financial crash is partly to blame, but even before 2006 only about 6% of multi-employer plans were fully funded, compared to about 31% of single-employer plans. The real problem is that multi-employer plans have become a sort of pension Ponzi scheme.

Unions love multi-employer plans because they let workers keep their retirement benefits even if they switch jobs to another participating company. This encourages lifelong union membership. Unions are less enthusiastic about paying the bills. The negotiating priority of union leaders is to get hefty wage increases and benefits for current workers, leaving the scraps to the pensions of retirees who no longer vote in union elections.

When a company in an industry goes out of business, meanwhile, the remaining firms are still on the hook for all costs of the multi-employer plan. This explains why the trucking industry is backing Mr. Casey’s bill, and why Mr. Casey announced his legislation at a Pennsylvania facility of YRC Worldwide, a Kansas trucking outfit. Someone has to pay for years of the industry agreeing to Teamster demands.

Continue Reading at the Wall Street Journal - Associated Press June 1, 2010

Hi everyone….

Ok….normally this is out of the scope of expertise.  We mostly like to talk about jobs…economy….money…etc.  But our buds at over at Spectra sent us this link.  www.karentascon.com.  YEAH!  EXACTLY! WOW!  Spectra’s team knows about talent and this lady is very talented.  Don’t believe me…check the site.  Those celebtrites are clients….yeah clients. 

We are not into the makeup and fashion business but we know people are watching our blog.  We see you too!  And so I said…let’s do it.  She is extremely talented and gifted and we value talent and art in any form. 

So if you get a chance…stop by and take a look at the site.  www.karentascon.com …amazing!

WOW!   We have been away from some of our people…but Latinos on Slopes has been busy adding some new pics and videos to the site and let me tell you…its awesome. 

With the hot weather…just staring at those icy slopes and that cool snowy breeeeezzzz….AWESOME!   Not much weather for snow boarding though but its hot for the beach, the rivers, the lakes, the water parks, etc.  Either way, we have much love for our peeps in NJ.  We know you guys are on the beach doing some boarding…on the water that is. 

If you get a chance….stop by and visit those crazy dudes at www.los201.com.  Tell’um the SPLUR sent you. 

Greetings RedSplur Nation!

Sorry we have not been updating the blog lately but we currently have another large project underway and have been busy working on that one to ensure we have a succcesful run. 

Anyway…we see that alot of our members have been helping out by periodically adding new posts and information.  To which I say thank you and its greatly appreciated!

Well…we will be back into full swing by the end of next week…with alot more updates and it seems like we will have some new bloggers joining out team. 

Till then…take care and see you soon!

- RedSplur Team

Hot off the Spectra Personnel presses…

Spectra Personnel is seeking Bilingual Customer Service Representatives for inbound and outbound call center in the GA area.   Great opportunity with great pay.  Call us today to find out more information about job opportunities.  

To contact the offices simply dial 1-800-746-0282 ext 104 or register online at www.spectrapersonnel.com. 

- Spectra Personnel Recruitment Team

News Update!!!!

Greetings RedSplur Nation:

We have recently added a new feature to our site.  Over the past few months, we have been thinking about how to improve our blogging platform, while helping our community through this tough economy….our solution…BlazinRedJobs from the RedSplur.com.

Not a member of RedSplur.com?  Don’t worry, no registration required to search for jobs….just a quick search for the type of jobs you are looking for and the location…presto you get immediate results.   Quick, simple yet robust search engine to help you see all the jobs available across the US. 

But don’t take my word for it….come and check out our newest feature.  We hope you enjoy it..

The White House’s new health-care proposal promises the “largest middle class tax cut for health care in history,” which is a creative way of describing a vast taxpayer-subsidized insurance entitlement. Naturally, the fine print goes on to describe one of the largest tax increases for health care in history, too. This new ObamaCare bargain would for the first time apply the 2.9% Medicare payroll tax to “interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents,” so-called passive income that we are told includes capital gains, though the latter wasn’t explicitly mentioned in the proposal. This antigrowth investment tax would apply to singles earning more than $200,000 and joint filers over $250,000 and comes on top of the Senate’s 0.9-percentage-point increase in the payroll tax, which would bring the combined employee-employer share to 3.8%. The rate hike on investment income would presumably take effect at the same time the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts are due to expire next year, bringing the top rate to 22.9% as the current top capital gains rate would also rise to 20% from 15%. That’s a 52% jump, and the last time investors were slammed with anything comparable was 1986 when the capital gains rate bounced to 28% from 20%—or a 40% increase—as part of the Reagan tax reform that reduced income tax rates. .In part this is a sneaky way of waging the House’s war on “the rich” by other means while appearing to compromise. Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 5.4-percentage-point “surcharge” on modified adjusted gross income above $1 million—which also includes capital gains—was supposedly too extreme for the Senate, but the White House is trying to smuggle in its 2.9-percentage-point cousin. Of course, $250,000 is a lot lower income threshold than $1 million, and the rate can always be inched up later once the tax is already in place. The House surcharge is certainly destructive but it is at least above-board. The White House levy muddies up both the tax code and Medicare financing. The Medicare payroll levy was designed as a social insurance program with some connection, however attenuated, between taxes paid and benefits received. When Medicare passed in 1965 it was modelled after Social Security and the tax was supposed to be equivalent to a “premium” for guaranteed health-care insurance for seniors; everyone “contributed” at the same rate. Until 1993, the payroll tax was assessed only on the first $135,000 of wages, until the Clinton Administration and the Democratic Congress lifted the Medicare cap entirely. WSJ Related Stories: •Review & Outlook: ObamaCare at Ramming Speed •Review & Outlook: To the ObamaCare Barricades .The Clinton move was bad enough but Mr. Obama’s plan fundamentally changes the nature of the government’s health-care financing. Medicare’s liabilities mean that it must receive injections of general revenue, but never before have Medicare’s own “dedicated” revenues been siphoned off to fund another entitlement. Essentially, it turns Medicare financing into a wealth transfer program at a stroke. This will be sold in the name of “fairness,” if anyone else in the press corps notices, but the worst implications are economic. The 0.9% increase is another tax on job creation, though Democrats claim they want more jobs. The devious 2.9% hike on investment income will raise the cost of capital, though Democrats claim to want more capital investment. Sometimes we wonder if Democrats even listen to their own rhetoric, or if they assume voters are too dumb to notice their contradictions. If Americans need another reason to oppose ObamaCare, or more evidence of its destructiveness, here it is.

Please Read the complete article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704188104575083520811873704.html

Wall Street Journal