The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency on Wednesday ordered that from now on, at least 90 percent of the construction jobs on any project it aids must go to Western New York workers.
Reacting to a request from the County Legislature, the IDA board approved a new local hiring policy that puts incentives at risk if recipients don’t hire locally….
….McNally said the new rule “ensures construction workers from Western New York should be on the job site, rather than people from out of state coming in and taking their money with them.”
The policy defines local hiring as workers from Niagara, Erie, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Orleans, Genesee, Wyoming or Allegany counties. The contractors need not be based in that region, but the workers they hire must live there.