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Huge heating oil price spikes and supply shortages could plague the Bay State this winter, Gov. Paul Cellucci warned yesterday, while President Clinton suggested OPEC could cause the economy to […]

Leave it to the brains at MIT to figure out how to help working moms balance their careers with the rest of their lives. Long regarded as among the best […]

The unions that fought phone giant Verizon Communications are basking in victory's lap this first Labor Day of the new century. They won double-digit raises, limits on forced overtime and […]

Massachusetts' historically low unemployment rates, while a boon to job seekers, are hurting its technology-intensive companies, with one in every 12 job vacancies for skilled workers going unfilled, a new […]

Even if they don't hit the jackpot this weekend, the employees of a small Bedford software consulting company apparently already have had a lucky streak. All 25 members of the […]

Twenty Massachusetts employers were hit with fines totaling $126,000 for breaking federal child-labor laws involving 154 kids, the U.S. Department of Labor said yesterday after a six-month sweep targeting 47 […]

Shell-shocked New England heating oil consumers should brace themselves for another expensive winter as low fuel inventories and skyrocketing prices promise to burn a hole in their wallets, experts say. […]

When U.S. firms hire foreign workers to help them beat a persistently tight labor market, they're supposed to pay them as much as they would Americans. But not every employer […]

A Florida man has been arrested and charged with trying to extort $1 million from a Waltham computer software firm by threatening to reveal via the Internet secret "keys" that […]

They insist it's not blackmail, - but some of the biggest shippers in the Hub are telling Maersk-Sealand and other top shipping lines to please come to Boston - or […]

You'd think that the 87,000 union workers who went out on strike against Verizon Communications Aug. 6 would've settled and gone back to work yesterday as one happy family. So, […]

Unions representing some 50,000 Verizon Communications employees claimed a "slam dunk" victory last night after negotiators worked furiously to hammer out a tentative deal on new three-year job contracts, ending […]

Unions representing some 50,000 Verizon Communications workers claimed a "slam dunk" victory last night after negotiators worked around the clock to hammer out a new three-year job contract, ending a […]

The two-week-old strike against Verizon Communications by 87,000 union workers neared an end last night after intense, 'round-the-clock bargaining resulted in substantial progress toward new job pacts, union officials said […]

Talks to settle a 12-day-old strike by 87,000 Verizon Communications phone workers continued this morning past a midnight deadline set by union negotiators, who had threatened to leave the bargaining […]

Verizon Communications asked a Boston judge yesterday to restrain striking workers while union leaders in Washington said contract talks have reached a make-or-break point and threatened to walk away from […]

It may turn out to be the storm before the calm, but the workers' strike against Verizon Communications heated up yesterday with union members going on the road to harass […]

Like oil heat consumers, natural gas customers can expect to pay more to heat their homes and businesses this winter, industry officials and regulators said yesterday. The American Gas Association […]

Philadelphia-based PECO Energy Co. said yesterday it has agreed to buy a 49.9 percent stake in Sithe Energies Inc.'s North American businesses, including five power plants in Massachusetts that Sithe […]

The two sides in the Verizon Communications strike appeared no closer to reaching a settlement yesterday, even as negotiators returned to the bargaining table to fine tune a company offer […]

Suffolk County and Middlesex sheriffs hit four video rental stores in Boston and Lowell yesterday, confiscating more than 1,200 allegedly pirated Chinese soap operas and movies in a series of […]

More than 1,500 strikers and supporters took a defiant message to the seat of Verizon Communications' New England operations yesterday, even as talks inched forward in the six-day-old strike by […]

Prospects for a settlement in the Verizon Communications strike appeared to brighten yesterday as the company reported "significant progress" on the key issue of organizing workers in Verizon's wireless division. […]

Bay State congressman Marty Meehan said yesterday that he wants to "put some teeth" in the National Labor Relations Act by jacking up the penalties against employers who illegally restrain […]

The pro-business Washington Legal Foundation has filed a $16 million lawsuit charging the Environmental Protection Agency with malicious prosecution of a Northbridge businessman and his firm for allegedly dumping acidic […]

Imagine a real estate agent with no phone. Having ordered service a month ago, Judy Tedesco moved into a new Lexington condominium Tuesday, only to find that her new phone […]

Verizon Communications workers have threatened, harassed and assaulted management employees replacing them during the 3-day-old strike, company officials claimed yesterday, as both sides reported a slowdown in progress at the […]

In the eyes of many following the impasse at Verizon Communications, this biggest workers' strike of the new century may well be its most important. "It's a fateful moment," said […]

A Massachusetts workers' group said yesterday it wants a meeting with Verizon Communications' wireless subsidiary soon to discuss allegations that the company threatened to punish employees for trying to form […]

Local telephone giant Verizon Communications offered a new contract package to its largest union yesterday, but the bargaining unit said the offer needed to be sweetened substantially to avert a […]

The three Boston longshoremen's union locals that were found in contempt of a judge's order to end work stoppages at the Port of Boston earlier this week won't have to […]

Facing a $100,000-a-day fine and a stern directive from their international union president, Boston's longshoremen went back to work yesterday after a two-day walkout that brought cargo activities to a […]

A federal judge slapped a $100,000 fine on the leaders of three longshoremen's locals yesterday after their members refused to show up for work, paralyzing operations at the Port of […]

U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson agreed yesterday to help devise a strategy to increase New England's supply of heating oil and avert a repeat of last winter's scare that saw […]

Plymouth's Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station is set to change corporate hands again, just a year after it was sold by Boston Edison in the first nuclear plant sale by a […]

A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer has recommended that a union election held recently at a Brighton nursing home be voided because the home used a forged letter to […]

Federal energy regulators voted yesterday to place a temporary cap on New England's wholesale power prices, saying there are still flaws in the region's power pool markets that prevent full […]

The National Federation of the Blind withdrew its lawsuit against America Online Inc. yesterday after the company agreed to make its Internet service accessible to blind Net surfers. In a […]

In a move lauded by industry analysts, Boston's Gillette Co. yesterday named South Boston native Edward F. DeGraan president and chief operating officer, elevating him from executive vice president for […]

For Cambridge furniture store owner John Buster, the term "no obligation" - as in, you're not obligated to take it if you don't want it - now means something altogether […]

A national coalition of consumer, health and environmental activists put the Campbell Soup Co. on the boiler yesterday, calling on the world's largest soupmaker to stop using in its products […]

Giant bookseller Barnes & Noble Inc. is threatening to take the New England Booksellers Association to court, charging the independent bookstore group with infringement of its 10-year-old "Discover Great New […]

Give credit to Boston's glorious summer weather for making its latest Tall Ships event such a success. Boston Police said some 7.6 million people visited the Hub from Tuesday through […]

MIT yesterday joined a New York high-tech firm in suing Compaq Computer Corp. and Seagate Technology Inc. for $800 million, charging theft of its computer disk drive technology. Privately held […]

Boston's Cabot Corp. agreed yesterday to sell its liquified natural gas operations to one of Europe's largest power producers for $680 million in cash. Tractebel Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of […]

It's unlikely the state's bulging unemployment insurance trust fund will be used to pay parental leave benefits, as President Clinton has authorized, any time soon. Rep. Peter Larkin (D-Pittsfield), the […]

President Clinton moved yesterday to establish a 2 million barrel home-heating oil reserve for the Northeast, hoping to avert a repeat of last winter's fuel shortages that sent prices soaring […]

Latecomer Shaw Group Inc. yesterday claimed victory in the bidding for Boston's Stone & Webster Inc.'s assets, plucking the bankrupt engineering firm from an early suitor after entering the picture […]

FleetBoston Financial Corp. said yesterday it will pump $600 million over the next five years into minority- and women-owned businesses and affordable-housing developers in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the Northeast. […]

A Louisiana construction company jumped into a bidding battle against a California engineering firm yesterday to buy Boston's Stone & Webster Inc., hoping to emerge as the new owner of […]