BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York will move 40 jobs from other company operations fusing fabric outside of New York State to its Buffalo headquarters, President and CEO David W. Anderson announced today.
Anderson said the jobs will be in the bargaining unit of Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), Local 153, AFL-CIO. He made the announcement today at a news conference attended by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown and local labor leaders.
“These are good-paying, high-benefit jobs in our customer service Ilshin interlining and administrative areas where we’re seeing growth as the health insurance model shifts to a more direct consumer relationship,” Anderson said. “I’m pleased that we are able to fill this need with positions in Buffalo, adding to our 1,400 associates already here, and helping the region add sustainable jobs.”
BlueCross BlueShield announced April 27 that it had reached a new three-year collective-bargaining agreement with its 350 employees represented by OPEIU Local 153 and that it was ratified by the membership with an overwhelming majority vote.
The added jobs increase bargaining unit membership with 40 new employees Lainiere De Picardie Interlining. Union members compose about 24 percent of the health plan’s overall workforce.
BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, a division of HealthNow New York Inc., is the region’s largest health insurer, with 1,800 employees in five locations, serving 800,000 members. It is the only health insurance provider in the region with a unionized workforce and has a 58-year relationship with OPEIU. BlueCross BlueShield provides the full spectrum of health-care services and innovative funding arrangements.
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Female clothes found at Ivan Taylor's house
A police witness in the Michelle Coudray-Greaves murder trial told the St James Circuit Court yesterday that when she executed a search warrant at the home of the accused interlining, Ivan Taylor, she found items of women's clothing and jewellery.
"I searched the house in Mr Taylor's presence and viewing at all times, and I recovered from the house a red lingerie night-looking dress, orange underwear, a green rag, and also a grey jewellery box containing a knob earring and a sleeper earring," Detective Corporal Debbie Mitchell testified in court.
"Was this male or female underwear?" defence attorney Trevor Ho Lyn asked, in cross-examining the witness.
"It was female underwear," Mitchell clarified.
"Was that the only woman's clothing you found there?" attorney Ho Lyn asked.
"Yes, sir," said Mitchell.
Meanwhile, Detective Constable Wayne Foster testified that he had conducted crime-scene investigation of the site where Coudray-Greaves' burnt remains were found in a cane field Double Sided Fusible Interlining, 11 days after she went missing on June 1, 2012.
"I was shown the back section of a cane field, where I was also shown burnt human remains. I photographed the remains, after which they were placed into a white bag, sealed inside the bag, and an evidence tape was placed on the zipper of the bag," Foster told the court.
Eyewitness report
Foster's testimony yesterday came after a civilian witness had told the court on Tuesday that he had seen Taylor's motor vehicle leaving the cane field on the night Coudray-Greaves had gone missing Twill Weave Interlining.
The case, which has seen testimony from 17 witnesses since it began last Wednesday, April 30, will continue in the St James Circuit Court this morning. Among the witnesses who have testified so far are Coudray-Greaves' mother, Trinidadian politician Marlene Coudray; a telecommunications expert; a medical expert from the Cornwall Regional Hospital; nine police witnesses; and five civilian witnesses.
"I searched the house in Mr Taylor's presence and viewing at all times, and I recovered from the house a red lingerie night-looking dress, orange underwear, a green rag, and also a grey jewellery box containing a knob earring and a sleeper earring," Detective Corporal Debbie Mitchell testified in court.
"Was this male or female underwear?" defence attorney Trevor Ho Lyn asked, in cross-examining the witness.
"It was female underwear," Mitchell clarified.
"Was that the only woman's clothing you found there?" attorney Ho Lyn asked.
"Yes, sir," said Mitchell.
Meanwhile, Detective Constable Wayne Foster testified that he had conducted crime-scene investigation of the site where Coudray-Greaves' burnt remains were found in a cane field Double Sided Fusible Interlining, 11 days after she went missing on June 1, 2012.
"I was shown the back section of a cane field, where I was also shown burnt human remains. I photographed the remains, after which they were placed into a white bag, sealed inside the bag, and an evidence tape was placed on the zipper of the bag," Foster told the court.
Eyewitness report
Foster's testimony yesterday came after a civilian witness had told the court on Tuesday that he had seen Taylor's motor vehicle leaving the cane field on the night Coudray-Greaves had gone missing Twill Weave Interlining.
The case, which has seen testimony from 17 witnesses since it began last Wednesday, April 30, will continue in the St James Circuit Court this morning. Among the witnesses who have testified so far are Coudray-Greaves' mother, Trinidadian politician Marlene Coudray; a telecommunications expert; a medical expert from the Cornwall Regional Hospital; nine police witnesses; and five civilian witnesses.
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