Capital Confidential, By Rick Carlin, February 24, 2012. An activist group along with the Teamsters and a bi-partisan group of lawmakers are asking the Authorities Budget Office to investigate the way that Wards Natural Science moved some of its operations from Erie to Monroe County, seemingly as their tax break in Erie was expiring.
Innovation Trail, By Zack Seward February 24, 2012. Labor groups backed by several Buffalo-area lawmakers are calling for an investigation of the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency (COMIDA). In a letter filed Thursday afternoon with the state's Authorities Budget Office (ABO), the Getting Our Money's Worth Coalition claims COMIDA broke state law by offering tax breaks to VWR Education LLC.
WNY Labor Today, February 22, 2012. Representatives of Organized Labor joined with a number of area Community Groups to rally outside the County of Monroe IDA (COMIDA) on Tuesday (February 21st) in order to publicly urge its Board to rescind Tax Abatements given to Ward’s Natural Science, a subsidiary of VWR Education LLC.
Buffalo Business First, February 22, 2012. A company that deals in science education materials and last year closed an operation in Tonawanda has received tax breaks from the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency, sparking protest.
Democrat and Chronicle, By Matt Daneman, February 22, 2012. A crowd of Rochester- and Buffalo-area protesters from labor and social justice groups, ...packed the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency meeting this week to raise some heck about tax breaks.