Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Business News From Around the State

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and Turner Broadcasting System have made the 2007 Working Mothers 100 Best Companies List. For the full list, go to Working Mother.

General Motors union workers are on strike; United Auto Workers members are picking the Doraville plant after the strike started late Monday morning. The Doraville plant is scheduled to close in 2008. Roughly half of the Doraville plant members, active and retired, live in Gwinnett County. For more information, see the Gwinnett Daily Post.

Perry in Houston County is on the very-short list for an unnamed company wishing to locate offices and "good paying jobs" in the area. The other option is an unnamed Alabama community. The Macon Telegraph has more on the unnamed business.

The Department of Trnasportation granted Delta Airlines the right to fly non-stop between Atlanta and Shanghai, China. Delta has another application pending for non-stop service between Atlanta and Beijing. US Airways is the only other major airline without service to China.

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