Economy

The right to an abortion is codified into Massachusetts law, even if Roe v. Wade gets overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court later this summer.

The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development announced Friday that Massachusetts’s  total unemployment rate dropped by...

The two businesses Sonny Phengsomphone has started in Central Massachusetts are just part of his immigrant journey.

WBJ spoke to both Geoff Diehl and Chris Doughty separately after the convention to ask about economic issues in Central Massachusetts and the commonwealth as a whole.

The CEO of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, Jennifer Childs-Roshak, sent a letter to all staff members on June 1, encouraging employees to vote no in an upcoming union election to see if employees will be represented by Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union, also known as United Healthcare Workers East.

The National Science Foundation has awarded $2.9 million to Framingham State University, Worcester State University, and Bridgewater State University to create a national model to recruit, retain, and promote cohorts of faculty of color in the STEM fields.

The employees of the Starbucks at 11 East Central St. in Worcester have voted unanimously to unionize, according to a letter Friday from the workers posted to the Twitter account of Boston Starbucks Workers United.

As Massachusetts’ life sciences industry continues to expand rapidly, companies must rethink hiring practices to address ongoing workforce challenges, according to a Wednesday report by the Cambridge-based Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.

On April 1, Sheree Gaus began her first term on the board of Women in Manufacturing Association, a nonprofit trade group founded in Ohio with aspirations of making a global impact.

For much of its 300-year history, Worcester has been anti-labor, making it harder to organize and fight strict company rules.