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Buffalo, NY (WBEN) By a 6-5 vote, the Erie County Legislature has approved a law requiring future employees of the county to ...
East Aurora, NY (WBEN) Mattel says its restructuring of its North American operations has led toa consolidation of positions ...
NEW YORK (AP) - The stock market is surging past new milestones after the government reported a big pickup in hiring at U.S. ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) For the third time, CSEA-represented Erie County employees voted to reject a tentative agreement reached b...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Members of the union representing Erie County employees have been voting for the past few days on the prop...
(AP) With the backdrop of an uncertain economy, shrinking unions and company cost-cutting, Goodyear and the Steelworkers are ...
The AAA reports the current average for a gallon of unleaded gas in the region is $3.80. That's down three cents from...
Garbage piled high, unsafe parks, failing schools, strikes and choking taxes were all part of the backdrop of early 1970s New...
U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months and a sharp retreat after a period of strong hiring...
Perhaps with an eye toward today's 40th anniversary of the cellphone, AT&T has announced it will begin taking pre-orders ...
After voting down a contract proposal for the second time, nurses in Communications Workers of America Local 1133 are prepari...
Albany, NY (AP/WBEN) The tentative deal for a New York state budget will include expansion of pre-kindergarten in low-income ...
Amherst, NY (WBEN) After a face to face meeting, with Citi's CEO, Senator Charles Schumer says 175 more jobs have been co...
Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders say they have an agreement on a state budget that would include raising the minimum...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Legislators are starting to sign off on some aspects of the state budget as a final agreement draws near ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders have emerged from a brief closed-door meeting without ...
(AP) Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York legislative leaders met Sunday in preparation of what they hope will be a Monday announce...
(AP) The next US Labor Secretary will apparently be a man with strong ties to the Buffalo area.President Obama will soon nomi...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The state Assembly voted Tuesday to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour with automatic incr...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A group of local organizations, labor unions, and other community leaders held a rally Mondaymorning in dow...
(WBEN/AP) New York's largest teachers union says it's suing to overturn the state's property tax cap.New York Sta...
Falconer (WBEN/AP) -- A New York lawmaker says he'd have no problem raising the federal minimum wage.U.S. Senator Charles...
Lancaster (WBEN) -- Manufacturing still plays a role in the local economy, but these days it's all about high-tech manufa...
Albany, NY (WBEN) Following the State of the Union address, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has amended the proposed hike in ...
President Barack Obama wants an increase in the minimum hourly wage from the current $7.25 to $9 by the end of 2015. ...
Lancaster (WBEN) -- U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday announced details of a proposal meant give a boost to companies...
Firefighters from five states are opposing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposal to limit binding arbitration in union di...
Amherst (WBEN) -- The Western New York Regional Economic Development Council has released the full plan for the state's B...
Home Depot will hire 80,000 seasonal workers this spring. That's 10,000 more full and part-time positions than last year....
A new audit has found Erie county paid more than $1.4 million over four years, for an employee benefit that allows 1 mass...
(AP) The Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 14,000 for the first time since the Great Recession.The index rose as hig...
A bipartisan group of leading senators has reached agreement on the principles for a sweeping overhaul of the nation's im...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The push to increase New York's minimum wage affecting millions of workers got a boost and hit a snag...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The US Postal Service is looking to hire 300 city carrier assistants. It's a new category of non caree...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) It seems to go together like peanut butter and jelly. Wegmans is in the top 10 list of Fortune magazine...
The Erie County Industrial Development Agency approved incentive packages for a pair of projects. One will help Harper Intern...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Supporters of the effort to raise New York's minimum wage held a rally Friday morning in Buffalo to urg...
While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increas...
Dunkirk, NY (WBEN) It is not a good start to the new year for some 375 employees at a food manufacturing facility. Ralcorp sa...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- It's nowthe law in Michigan, but could New York also see a debate over the right-to-work legislation?Th...
MoneyWatch) The U.S. economy added 146,000 new jobs in November and the employment rate slid to 7.7 percent from last month&#...
--Tops Friendly Markets announced that the company has entered into an agreement with the Farrugia family to acquire three Bi...
The YMCA is putting out a call to hire people. They open their new 23 million dollar independent health family branch next to...
East Aurora, NY (WBEN) The teacher arrested in Buffalo on drug charges is now on leave according to East Aurora's schools...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN/AP) HSBC is moving out of its downtown tower. But HSBC says it will retain thousands of jobs in Western New...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Gov.Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced an investment in the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus,as he hears plans...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Last year, HSBC announcedhundreds ofjobs would be lost as the bank announced it would have PHH Mortgage Co...
HSBC Bank USA North America has laid off sixty employees at One HSBC Center in downtown Buffalo. Business First reports the e...
More and more workers are shopping online from work, so much so that it could be cutting into productivity.And more and more ...
IRVING, Texas (AP) - Hostess says it's going out of business -- but some of its products may continue to be sold. The com...
Architect/developer Jake Schneider is purchasing buildings at 145 and 149 Swan Streets and an adjoining parking lot as part o...
Mayville, NY (WBEN/AP) Chautauqua County Sheriff Joe Gerace is warning people not to fall for a scam that begins with a help ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Turnout was projected to be heavy for this presidential race, and voters did not disappoint."We'r...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October, and hiring was stronger in August and September than first t...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Business First has unveiled its list of upstate school districts based on affluence. The Rochester suburb ...
(WBEN) The highest paid teachers in Erie County -- and some of the highest in all of upstate New York-- are in Sweet Home, ac...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- It was announced this morning that a Canadian firm will refurbish and upgrade the old Buffalo Metal Fabrica...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A team from the New York State Labor Departmentspent Fridayat ECC's downtown campus helping the unemplo...
Can't Come to Work Because You Are Stranded On Lake Erie? Burnt Your Mouth on Thanksgiving Pie? Really?A new survey from ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) There are two schools of thought on the direction of the economy as experts digest the latest jobs report ...
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years. ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - First Niagara Financial Group says it's realigning some staffing and will do away with 180 positions...
NEW YORK (AP) - Time is running out before the NHL has to cancel regular-season games and team owners and players aren't ...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Buffalo Common Council couldreconsider its contract with the Seneca Gaming Corporationfor the Buffalo Creek...
CHICAGO (AP) -- The city's teachers agreed Tuesday to return to the classroom after more than a week on the picket lines,...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Buffalo Teachers Federation received another judgement in its favor Tuesday when a judge upheld an arb...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve unleashed a series of bold and open-ended steps Thursday to stimulate the economy by m...
Private sector jobs have been on the rise for Buffalo and Rochester over the past five years. The American City Business Jour...
U.S. employers added 96,000 jobs last month, a weak figure that could slow any momentum President Barack Obama hoped to gain ...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Leadership of local 815 of the Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) say its members have rejected the...
Unemployment for the Western New York region increased in July to 9%, up from 8.1% in June. The state Labor Department notes ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) When Daniel Burling gave his farewell address to the Assembly, he told his colleagues he'd be back to ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Americans with Disabilities Act recently marked its 22nd anniversary. Friday, the Director of Federal ...
U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring.The Labor Department said Fri...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand support an increase to the federal minimum wage,...
A new report says the more you curse at work the worse it makes you look to your colleagues and boss.According to a new Caree...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) Erie County and the county's largest labor union have struck a tentative deal on a 10 year contract. D...
Yes, if Mitt Romney wins the White House and Republicans retake the Senate, he could shred most of President Barack Obama'...
(WBEN/AP) They cut spending, sold assets and even asked public employees to take a financial hit.But budget woes still mounte...
Approximately 250 unionized production workers from Teamsters Local 264 walked off the job Monday, after Sorrento Lactalis im...
Read George Zornick's blog on the June Jobs Report on thenation.com.
(AP) U.S. employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, a third straight month of weak hiring that shows the economy is still str...
If you notice fewer people at work today, you aren't alone.With the July Fourth holiday hitting in the middle of the week...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In promoting the health care law, President Barack Obama is repeating his persistent and unsubstantia...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- BlueCross BlueShield on Friday hosted a forum on the Supreme Court's ruling on the health-care reform l...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Some members of the local health-care community are also reacting to Thursday'sSupreme Court decision o...
Stocks dropped sharply Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld the central provision of President Barack Obama's health c...
(AP) The Supreme Court has upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama's health ca...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, now just hours away, marks ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) America expects to hear Thursday from the Supreme Court on the health care reform law. Two presidents of t...
Good economic news for Western New York.On Friday, the GM Powertrain plant in Tonawanda began working on two new engine lines...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he may not reach agreement with lawmakers on his bill to keep teacher evaluations ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York parents will be able to see for the first time the job evaluations of the teachers who instruct ...
The number of people without jobs in New York increased slightly last month, nudging the unemployment rate to 8.6 percent fro...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) In light of the ECMC shooting, other hospitals heightened security Wednesday.Catholic Health System height...
New York (AP/WBEN) -- U.S. stocksclosed Fridaywith their biggest declines this year after a dismal jobs report and troubling ...
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has issued a statement renewing his call for increasing New York State's minimum wage. Si...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) OSHA has cited Aria Contracting Corp., an Orchard Park asbestos removal contractor, for eight alleged seri...
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Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - It's been going on for months. The State Education Commissioner, the Buffalo Public schools, and the...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Officials say a months-old proposal to raise the minimum wage for millions of New Yorkers is dead.The Ass...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Federal safety inspectors have cited a Buffalo cheese factory for violations of workplace safety standar...
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Lawyers are set to debate whether Eastman Kodak Co. should pay $13.5 million in bonuses to retain ...
BUFFALO, NY (WBEN) -A walk out protest by Buffalo teachers as New York State Education Commissioner John King spokeat the New...
Buffalo (WBEN) --Some parents of Buffalo schoolkids have asked the teachers' union to accept an evaluation plan so the di...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A delegation of theBuffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) has voted to reject the revised outline of a teacher-e...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) The New York Assembly plans to hold a series of hearings on raising the state's minimum wage to $8...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Eastman Kodak Co. is asking for permission to pay about 300 key managers and other employees a total of ...
Lockport, NY (WBEN) They're shouting "Yahoo!" in Niagara County. WBEN has learned none of the 2,000 announced l...
The state Labor Department has released the February unemployment figures for the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area. That rate was 9...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The State Education Department has rejected the revised teacher-evaluation system that the Buffalo School D...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The Allied Waste work stoppage has come to an end.Union crews are back at the job collecting trash and rec...
SEATTLE (AP) - Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A Buffalo man is facing charges,accused of stealing nearly $4,000 in unemployment benefits.State Police...
In a move that district officials say jeopardizes over $9 million in state aid, members of the Buffalo Teacher's unio...
Niagara Falls, NY (WBEN) The Pentagon is expected to announce its budget cutting plan, and the future of the 107th Air Nation...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- New York's junior senator remains critical of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh over his comments abou...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an election year battle mixing birth control, religion and politics, Democrats narrowly blocked an effo...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN/AP) - It's a much fatter pay check being picked up by rank and file General Motors workers today. $...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has defeated a Republican effort to roll back President Barack Obama's policy on contracepti...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Ben Bernanke says the Federal Reserve is sticking with its plan to hold interest rates at record-low levels...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) The president of the local chapter of the American Postal Workers Union says it did not come asa great sho...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- Dozens of grassroots leaders from local community groups, congregations, and unions gathered Saturday morni...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A deal has been struck on a new teacher evaluation system that should ensure New York gets $1 billion...
DETROIT (AP) -- General Motors Co. plans to freeze its U.S. pension plan for longtime white-collar workers and give all salar...
GM's Tonawanda Engine Plant is prepared to bring 93 idled workers back to the fold. Business First reports several hundre...
Albany, NY (AP/WBEN) The top Democrat in the state Legislature is pushing legislation to boost the state's minimum wage f...
NEW YORK (AP) - Authorities say a former lawyer for the New York State Thruway Employees union is accused of stealing more th...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - A day after Forbes Magazine says Buffalo is one of the top 10 unhappiest places to work, one Buffalo's t...
(WBEN)Forbes magazine ranks Buffalo as the 7th Unhappiest City in which to work.The publication partnered with the website Ca...
Northrup Grumman subsidiary Amherst Systems has laid off 94 more workers. Expected cutbacks in defense spending have led to t...
Albany (WBEN/AP) -- New York state Education Commissioner John B. King is suspending millions of dollars in grants to 10 scho...
The AAA reports the current average cost for a gallon of unleaded gas in Western New York is $3.56, reflecting a six cent...
Unions representing state workers in New York have filed a federal lawsuit against the Cuomo administration challenging an in...
New On Numbers data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows only six of 50 states have more retail jobs than they did ...
The national job placement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas will open up a job advice hotline Tuesday and Wednesday, offeri...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN)Standard and Poor's has upgraded Erie County's credit rating from BBB+to A-. It's the first time the county...
Roswell Park Cancer Institute plans to break ground next year on a new $43 million clinical sciences facility. Business F...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate is in session, aiming to wrap up business before the holidays. After a year of partisan battles,...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The U.S. Attorney's office on Mondayarrested two city of Buffalo employees, accusing each of stealing thous...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The firm that assisted the Steven J. Baum firm with foreclosures says it's laying off 601 employees early ne...
"Jobs Express," the new employment-based website of the state Labor Department, has 52,000 job postings. In the fou...
At mid-week of this busy time for consumers, the AAA reports gas prices have eased a whole penny from Monday, to an average o...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - The law firm at the center of controversy for apparently mocking the plight of foreclosure vicitms is ap...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The number of people applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level since early Apr...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- A former head of the Erie County Republican Party believes two factors helped Mark Poloncarz capture the Co...
Buffalo (WBEN) -- The Buffalo Public School District and the district’s Professional, Clerical and Technical Employees ...
Buffalo, NY (WBEN) - Need a job? A visit to Buffalo's Museum of Science might be just the thing you need, as a dozen or so lo...
Washington, D.C. (WBEN) -- Mark Andol, the owner of the Made in America Store and General Welding & Fabicating, Inc. in Elma,...
Albany, NY(WBEN)Members of the Public Employees Federation will not have to worry about layoffs. Members ratified a new four ...
With layoffs hanging in the balance, New York's second-largest public workers union is set to announce whether it will accept...
Every morning through Election Day, WBEN's Steve Cichon will ask the candidates for County Executive their thoughts on a brie...
Every morning through Election Day, WBEN's Steve Cichon will ask the candidates for County Executive their thoughts on a brie...
The September 2011 unemployment rate for the Buffalo-Niagara Falls area was down from September of last year by six-tenths of...
Every morning through Election Day, WBEN's Steve Cichon will ask the candidates for County Executive their thoughts on a brie...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Executive Committee of the Public Employees Federation union is supporting a new, tentative contract ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — The push for a higher tax on New Yorkers making more than $1 million a year is getting fresh life wi...
(AP)The executive board of New York state's second largest union is expected to consider a tentative agreement with the Cuomo...
Buffalo, NY(WBEN)The union representing Erie County Sheriff's Deputies have filed suit against Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard...
Nurses at Eastern Niagara Hospital-Lockport Site overwhelmingly ratified a new labor agreement by a margin of 71 to 8. The ne...
Clarence, N.Y. (WBEN) -- An employeeof a Clarence business is facing a misdemeanor count of prostitution and a felony count o...
(AP) Employers added 103,000 jobs in September, a modest burst of hiring after a sluggish summer.Still, job growth remains to...
(AP) Employers added 103,000 jobs in September, a modest burst of hiring after a sluggish summer.Still, job growth remains to...
(AP) Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he's open to shortening a contract with a public labor union to avoid layoffs if concessions rema...
<<< Occupy Wall Street protesters march to a Verizon office to support employees there who are picketing in New York...
<<< Occupy Wall Street protesters march to a Verizon office to support employees there who are picketing in New York...
According to the latest data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, M&T has surpassed HSBC as the #1 bank in Western...
Woodlawn, NY(WBEN)More details are coming out on the Ford labor agreement with the UAW. WesternNew York's Ford plant will be ...
(AP)Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers have come to terms on a new four-year contract that trades annual pay raises f...
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo told a state workers' union to reconsider its decision announced Tuesday to reject a c...
State Police are investigating the armed hold-up of the Outback Steakhouse on McKinley Parkway in Hamburg. The suspects enter...
(WBEN/AP) In the age of instant tweets and impulsive Facebook posts, some companies are still trying to figure out how they c...
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DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union won $5,000 signing bonuses and the possibility of sweeter profit-shari...
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