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ALBANY — The state Department of Transportation is continuing its recruitment efforts to find snowplow drivers as winter approaches and hundreds of jo...

No sport on Earth is more popular than soccer — football, as the rest of the world calls it. And with the possible exception of the Olympic Games, no ...

NEW YORK — Amazon workers in Upstate New York overwhelmingly rejected a union bid on Tuesday, handing a second defeat to the labor group that’s been a...

Local unemployment rates were steady or rose slightly in August, the state Department of Labor reported Tuesday. Cattaraugus County saw an unemploymen...

As New York state moves closer to changing the pay scale for farmworkers, great care must be taken to ensure the effort doesn’t completely backfire. T...

ALBANY (AP) — The New York state Department of Labor recovered more than $270,000 in unpaid wages for a domestic worker who was “chronically underpaid...

WEST VALLEY — The Department of Energy and West Valley Demonstration Project recently completed the deactivation of the Product Purification Cell-Sout...

NEW YORK — Backed by the grassroots labor group that secured the first-ever union victory of an Amazon warehouse in the U.S., workers of another wareh...

Tens of millions of workers had to adjust to working remotely at the onset of the pandemic, and over two years later we continue to debate the right b...

NEW SCOTLAND (TNS) — Providing farmworkers with the overtime benefits that most everyone else receives is one of those ideas that seems to make intuit...

ST. BONAVENTURE — Research by graduate students at St. Bonaventure University suggests that the pandemic has permanently altered the workplace and the...

OLEAN — City firefighters reported six construction workers required treatment at Washington West Elementary School due to carbon monoxide poisoning. ...

A state agency in New York has filed an administrative complaint against Amazon, alleging the e-commerce giant discriminated against pregnant and disa...

JAMESTOWN — Joseph Bergman couldn’t have expected to be back at SUNY Jamestown Community College this semester to start on an associate’s degree in bu...

OLEAN — Olean General Hospital is seeking new volunteers to help in a variety of ways at the hospital. Volunteers, ages 14 and older, can offer as lit...

Gov. Kathy Hochul and state Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett were caught between what you might call a shot and a hard place: Risk a staffing crisi...

The workers of the world should unite, so long as it isn’t against COVID-19 restrictions. In that event, they are hateful kooks who deserve whatever t...

SCHUYLERVILLE — The thousands of people paid to plant corn, pick apples and milk cows in New York often work long days, six days a week — and earn ove...