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nTelos Wireless opening new location at River Place Courtyard
BARBOURSVILLE -- A new nTelos Wireless location is having a grand opening today, May 17, in River Place Courtyard on U.S. 60, near Quizno's and Carter's Custom Graphics.
L.T. Schoonover will manage the store, which will offer a variety of products and services not available at other locations, including free coffee, tea and water, couches and chairs to rest in, a fully stocked product display and several accessories and products for cellular phones.
Employees also can help customers link their phones' Internet with other computers in their home. And the store offers the capability on select handsets to transfer contacts, pictures, music and video stored in a phone to another handheld device.
The store is still hiring. For more information, call (304) 733-2772, e-mail a cover letter and resume to LT@cellularconnectionwv.com or visit the store.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Chamber to host Legislative Wrap-Up
HUNTINGTON -- The Huntington Regional Chamber's Annual Legislative Wrap-Up will be from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the Marshall University Memorial Student Center. It will take place in the Don Morris Room with a reception following.
Area senators and delegates will present information on the recent legislative session. The event will be presented by Enterprise Rent A Car and Verizon and the reception sponsored by Marshall. An additional sponsor is West Virginia American Water.
Cost is $20 per person or $100 for a table of six. Visa, MasterCard, and American Express are accepted. To make reservations, contact the Chamber at (304) 525-5131.
Study: Union pay increases average salary
CHARLESTON -- Pay for union workers in West Virginia is 11.1 percent higher, on average, than for nonunion workers.
That's the finding of a joint study released Thursday by the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy in Charleston.
The study, called "The Union Advantage for Low-Wage Workers," found that union membership made an even bigger difference for low-wage workers, giving them an estimated 15.8 percent more than their nonunion counterparts.
Unionized workers also are more likely to receive paid leave, health insurance or an employer-provided pension plan.
Unions can help shrink the state's growing income inequality, Ted Boettner, director of the West Virginia agency, said in a news release.
The study found that 15.4 percent of West Virginia workers are either union members or covered by a union contract at their workplace.
The best paying jobs in the state tend to be in construction, manufacturing and mining regardless of whether they are represented by unions, said Steve Roberts, president of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce. Those industries also are more likely to have unions than others.
CVB director adds to executive credentials
HUNTINGTON -- Craig Warner, Director of the Cabell-Huntington Convention & Visitors Bureau, recently graduated from the National Association of Sports Commissions' Certified Sports Event Executive program.
The program is a continuing education program where participants learn about the latest trends in the sports event industry. Modules cover a variety of topics relevant to the industry that increases participant's efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace.
Group urges agreement at The Greenbrier
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS -- An insurance group that has met at The Greenbrier annually for 95 years says it will move this year's event if the resort and its unions don't agree on contracts by June 2.
The Washington, D.C.-based Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers urged both sides to resolve the labor dispute in full-page advertisements it ran this week in The Register-Herald in Beckley and The West Virginia Daily News in Lewisburg. The council's annual leadership forum is set for October.
Resort spokeswoman Lynn Swann says Greenbrier officials and the Council of Labor Unions held talks Wednesday and negotiations will resume May 29.
Contracts covering about 1,100 union workers expired March 1 but the employees have continued working.
Abercrombie profits edge up on sales increase
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Teen retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. said Friday that its first-quarter earnings rose 3 percent from a year ago on stronger sales.
Abercrombie said it earned $62.1 million, or 69 cents per share, in the three months ended May 3 compared with profits of $60.1 million, or 65 cents a share, a year ago.
Sales rose 8 percent to $800.1 million from $742.4 million last year. But sales at stores open at least a year, considered a key indicator of a retailer's strength, fell 3 percent.
Abercrombie, based in the Columbus suburb of New Albany, operates approximately 1,000 stores under the names Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie for children, Hollister Co., Ruehl and Gilly Hicks.
