Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Spokesman Vaughn Gilbert said the layoffs would not be targeted to one location, including the Westinghouse headquarters in Cranberry.
Blaming a global economic downturn and less demand for nuclear products, Westinghouse Electric Co. is whittling its workforce for the second time in less than a year. Westinghouse spokesman Vaughn Gilbert said the company on Tuesday informed employees that it would eliminate 665 positions worldwide. The number constitutes about 5 percent of the company’s workforce of 13,300 employees in 17 countries, Gilbert said. He noted the eliminations include open positions that have not been filled. Gilbert did not know how the layoffs would affect employees at the Westinghouse headquarters in Cranberry. He expected the eliminations to impact all operations across the globe. “At this point, we are working through the details,” he said. “It is not …
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Kim Perez is chairwoman of the Haiyang Focus Committee for the Cranberry Township Sister Cities Association.
Around the Rivers features stories from other local Patches. This article originally appeared on Cranberry Patch. Thanks to her husband’s jet-setting job with Westinghouse Electric Co., Kim Perez has always been something of a globetrotter. “We’ve lived abroad three times, all with Westinghouse,” she said. “We’ve lived in Belgium twice and in the U.K.” Now settled in Cranberry, she got the chance of a lifetime in September when she accompanied her husband on a business trip to China and met with the mayor of Haiyang as part of the Cranberry Township Sister Cities Association. “It was very cordial, and he went out of his way to extend hospitality to us,” she said of meeting with Mayor Jiang Shili. “I thought it was a great start to a …
Monday, September 19, 2011
25th Annual St. Barnabas CEO Leadership Conference held Monday in Richland Township focused on energy.
When Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley refers to Marcellus Shale and the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania, he talks about “getting it right” and learning from Pennsylvania’s history. Cawley was the keynote speaker Monday morning at the 25th Annual St. Barnabas CEO Leadership Conference held in Richland Township. His speech was followed by a panel discussion on the theme, “We’ve Got Energy – Earth, Wind and Fire.” “Natural gas is indeed a game changer in Western Pennsylvania,” said Cawley, who was appointed by Gov. Tom Corbett in March to chair the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission. The commission brought together representatives from environmental groups; the natural gas industry; and state, county and local governments, who unanimously adopted 96…
