LOCAL FALLOUT FROM EMERGENCY Jobless Claims Soaring; Sales-Tax Dip Expected By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – In an average week, Alan Sessions, CDO Workforce disability resource coordinator, might field 25 calls about unemployment insurance. “In the last week, we’ve received 25 calls a day,” he said. “Sometimes the wait to talk with someone is an hour.” The majority of the calls, he said, are waitstaff, kitchen help and retail workers suddenly jobless as Governor Cuomo ordered stores and…
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Expert: More, Higher Paying Manufacturing Jobs By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.ALLOTSEGO.com ONEONTA There are more manufacturing jobs available in Otsego County and they pay well, according to Christian Harris, Binghamton, the state Labor Department’s labor market analyst for Otsego County. “Right now there are 42 open jobs for supervisors, operations workers and industrial engineers,” he told THE JOB SCENE. “These are jobs maintaining the production line or working on the process of the production, and, on average, make…