Word: benard
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Today some 35,000 shoppers a week descend on about 125 outlets in town to get the real stuff. Young couples from Manhattan take an hour's drive on Saturdays to stock up on Fieldcrest sheets; Philadelphia Main Liners trek some 40 miles for Harve Benard outfits. Suburban moms motor in for the kids' Nike running shoes, and senior citizens on bus tours from as far away as central Pennsylvania buy Carter's clothing for grandchildren. Even given the discounts, Flemington merchants grossed about $100 million last year, and they expect to do better this year...
...state will eventually provide vocational counselors to assist the workers in their career planning, said Rosa M. Benard, business liason between RCC and Sears. Officials said the courses and advice are vital because many of the workers have learned skills at the plant that may be too specialized to be useful elsewhere therse...
...program is funded through RCC by the Massachusetts Industrial Service Program and the Department of Employment Security. Benard described the program as part of RCC's efforts to "build partnerships and collaborative relations between business, industry, and labor...
...Benard said 60 percent of the workers have held their current jobs for more than five years and some have been employed by Sears for as long as 35 years. She added that more than half the employees, most of whom do not have college degrees, make more than $8.50 an hour--wages which officials said will be "difficult...for them to match in similiar positions...