BOSTON – MBTA custodians and their hit out at the planned layoff of nearly 100 cleaning service workers from the public company later this year.
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21 Jun 2014 - 12:09am
New Bedford, Mass. – The seafood processing company Sea Watch International has been fined just over $35,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) following the death of a worker at a New Bedford plant in January.
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15 Jun 2014 - 10:38pm
BOSTON - Following the agreement reached in the Massachusetts House and Senate on Wednesday to raise the state’s minimum wage gradually to $11 an hour, union advocates continued calls for a minimum higher than that proposed by legislators.
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10 Jun 2014 - 10:43pm
Cambridge, MA – On Sunday’s “RADIO with a VIEW” program with Marc Stern and Dave Goodman, SEIU 1199 Vice president Enid Eckstein visited to discuss the upcoming Wage Action Events in Boston, Worcester, and Springfield, and economic inequality issues in general.
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9 Jun 2014 - 4:34am
BOSTON/State House - Joined by several sympathetic legislators at a State House briefing on Thursday, the union representing custodians who clean MBTA stations and trains took another step in their campaign to stop what they are calling disruptive job cuts this fall. The Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ – who represent nearly twenty thousand service workers throughout New England - believe contractors are poised to lay off almost a third of the T janitors beginning September first.
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9 Jun 2014 - 12:00am
How can we save our unions? Find out at a book talk and discussion of progressive labor initiatives in Massachusetts and other states.
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6 Jun 2014 - 11:43pm
Some of the best-known whistleblowers in the U.S. appeared at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington D.C.
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6 Jun 2014 - 11:36pm
After reading Sue Katz’ Lillian’s Last Affair and Other Stories (Consulting Adult Press, 2014), you’ll never again assume that you know what a “little old lady” is thinking or doing.
