Plants in area inmood to hire
Now is a good time for people who need a job to apply for a position at area manufacturing plants.
A representative with Manpower Dayton told me late last week they have more openings this month than they ever had this year. She told me this month and January are typically slow for hiring, but that appears to be changing.
Staff writer Thomas Gnau reported last week that Manpower held a drive-thru hiring event Friday for the DMAX plant in Moraine. The company has immediate openings and is trying to build a pool of new workers for its plant in Brookville that will open early next year.
“General Motors will take every engine we can build,” Linda Dean, manager of human resources administration for DMAX, told the Dayton Daily News.
The Brookville plant, which is expected to have about 100 employees, will operate concurrently with the original DMAX plant in Moraine, sending the established plant machined engine components, Gnau reported.
If you missed the job fair, you can still apply with Manpower online. The company has been hiring for several months to replace workers who leave or for new openings.
Wages for manufacturing jobs have changed in the last year. The Manpower representative told me typical wages of $12 or $13 an hour have been increased to $15 or $16. And if a company can’t increase its wages, more have added flexible shifts.
Restrictions on childcare due to the pandemic have forced companies to work with their employees on flexible shifts.
Dayton native running for New York City mayor
Ray McGuire, a veteran Wall Street executive who became one of the highest-ranking Black executives in the financial industry, announced in a video produced by filmmaker Spike Lee he is running for New York City mayor.
McGuire grew up in Dayton and was raised with two brothers by his single mother, a social worker, with help from his grandparents. He attended the Miami Valley School on scholarship while in Dayton before transferring to a boarding school in Connecticut.
McGuire went on to graduate from Harvard University and Harvard Law School, and started his career in 1984 in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of The First Boston Corporation.
McGuire, who put together $100 billion deals in his career as Citi’s global head of corporate and investment banking, spoke at the University of Dayton School of Law’s commencement in May 2018.
“I grew up in the neighborhood right in Dayton on ‘the other side of the tracks,’” McGuire said then. “My fam
ily had all of the essentials that money could buy: food, shelter and clothing. But more importantly, we had all that money could not buy: love, honor, respect, integrity and, most importantly, faith.”
Shop local
Today we highlight the new electronic gift-card program set to launch next week that will allow users to spend freely at any of their favorite Dayton businesses using a single card.
The Downtown Dayton Partnership has created an e-gift card program that allow users to buy one card where money can be added and used at any downtown Dayton business.
In this year of the pandemic, it’s important to support small businesses and this is one way. The cards can be purchased at the Downtown Dayton Partnership website.