Foreign companies now employ nine percent of Greater Worcester's workforce, the third highest among the top 100 US metropolitan areas, according to a study.
The former director of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation's (MassDOT) Worcester Office was sentenced in Worcester Superior Court Wednesday to two years in jail, although he will not do time as the sentence was suspended by the judge.
Providence & Worcester Railroad has entered into an eight-year collective bargaining agreement with the Transportation Communications International Union (TCU), which will include a compounded annual pay increase of 24 percent over the eight years for its workforce of clerical and dispatch employees, the union said.
UMass Memorial Health Care's (UMMHC) credit rating outlook was lowered Friday from stable to negative by Standard & Poor's Rating Services following weaker-than-expected quarterly earnings.