Archived: US Economy Provides Holiday Gift – 200,000 New Jobs
The U.S. economy added 200,000 jobs in December to push the national unemployment rate to a three-year low.
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Archived: Recess Appointments Cement Pro-Union Direction of NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board will apparently remain a flashpoint between employers and unions now that President Barack…
January 5, 2012
Read MoreArchived: AIM to Provide Administrative Services to Chamber Association
Associated Industries of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (MACCE) announced this morning that…
January 5, 2012
Read MoreArchived: Administration Economic Plan Highlights Growth Industries
The Patrick administration yesterday unveiled an economic development plan it says will help Massachusetts compete in the global…
December 29, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Top 10 Massachusetts Business Stories of 2011
A year of tornadoes, tropical-storm floods and freak Halloween snow provided the perfect metaphor for the year in…
December 29, 2011
Read MoreArchived: State Supreme Court Upholds Cape Wind/National Grid Power Agreement
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) today upheld the commonwealth’s approval of a power-sales agreement between National Grid…
December 28, 2011
Read MoreArchived: NLRB Again Postpones Requirement to Post Union Rights Notice
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has postponed for a second time the date by which employers must…
December 27, 2011
Read MoreArchived: AIM Applauds Rewards Program for Medical Cost Control
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care today unveiled a rewards program that will put cash into the pockets of subscribers…
December 20, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Massachusetts Wins Funding to Improve Early Education
Massachusetts has been named one of nine winners in the federal Race to the Top – Early Learning…
December 16, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Revamped Workforce Training Fund Seeks to be Responsive to Employers
The Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund Program (WTFP) has emerged from a period of financial uncertainty with a new…
December 16, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Massachusetts Jobless Rate Hits Three-Year Low
The Massachusetts unemployment rate dropped from 7.3 percent to 7 percent in November as employers added 5,000 net…
December 15, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Massachusetts Balances Books While Lowering Corporate Tax Rate
Massachusetts has survived the Great Recession far better than most other states.
December 13, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Blue Cross, Tufts Deal Spares Employers Coverage Headache
Thousands of employers will not be forced to choose after all between Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts…
December 8, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Massachusetts Seeks Business, Educational Collaboration with Brazil
Kristen Rupert, Executive Director of AIM’s International Business Council, is accompanying Governor Deval Patrick and a group of…
December 8, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Employer Confidence Rises Despite Euro Crisis, US Debt Standoff
Massachusetts employers see the economic glass half full, despite the ongoing European debt crisis and the failure to…
December 6, 2011
Read MoreArchived: AIM Companies View Opportunities in Brazil’s Energy Sector
Several AIM-member companies met yesterday with Brazil’s energy secretary as electricity and education dominated the first day of…
December 6, 2011
Read MoreArchived: State Energy Policy Built on Ineffective Programs that Drive Up Costs
Editor’s note – AIM Senior Vice President Robert Rio wrote an article in this space Monday about the fact…
December 2, 2011
Read MoreArchived: NLRB Approves Limits on Employer Appeals During Union Elections
The National Labor Relations Board voted 2-to-1 minutes ago to adopt regulations that limit the ability of employers to…
November 30, 2011
Read MoreArchived: NLRB Boycott Threat Leaves New Union Election Rules Up in the Air
Proposed regulations that would shorten the time employers have to respond to union organizing campaigns face an unprecedented…
November 30, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Consensus Grows on Need to Address Massachusetts Electricity Costs
“There are compelling reasons to support the development of offshore wind and solar projects, but requiring them to…
November 28, 2011
Read MoreArchived: Some Strong Medicine for Reducing Health Insurance Costs
I have spent the past month visiting with many of you at AIM Human Resource Roundtables around the state about the…
November 23, 2011
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