Shoe manufacturer Lifestyle Footwear in Moca has invested $2.1 million to improve its plant and will add 182 new jobs to its payroll after securing a new contract from the U.S. Department of Defense, company and government officials announced Tuesday.
The Independent Telephone Workers Union, a 2,000 employee bargaining unit employed by Claro Puerto Rico known as the UIET, has voted to affiliate itself with the Office and Professional Employees International Union. The new group will be known as OPEIU Local Union 1971.
Bluewater Defense Inc., based in San Lorenzo, was recently awarded a contract for an unspecified number of Army combat uniform trousers for which it could make as much as $103.6 million by the Jan. 17, 2014 fulfillment date, the U.S. Department of Defense announced.
Wireless carrier Open Mobile officially announced the birth of a new business model with which it will break away from the strictly prepaid, no-contract structure it has offered since entering the market more than a decade ago.
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