IBM adding jobs in Buffalo, Hudson Valley- Finally good news for the state.
By JOSEFA VELASQUEZ, AP
IBM said Monday it will keep 3,100 high-tech jobs in upstate New York and add 500 more in Buffalo.
The agreement between the company and the State University of New York College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering increases IBM's commitment of high-tech jobs at semiconductor plants in Dutchess County, Albany and Yorktown Heights by 750 from the current 2,350, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. It will stave off job cuts through 2016.
IBM, which employs about 7,000 people in Dutchess Country, laid off almost 700 last year.
Alliance@IBM, the national union of IBM employees, said more jobs cuts had been expected on Wednesday. Lee Conrad, the union's national coordinator, said that he believed those layoffs have been put on hold.
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