BOSTON - Jennifer Himenos, 25, has been working at the Dunkin Donuts near the American Legion Highway in Roslindale for the past four months, earning $8.50 an hour. She does not have her own apartment and sleeps on her mother and aunt’s couches between her part-time shifts.
In the run-up to their convention in Los Angeles Sept. 8-11, top AFL-CIO officials have welcomed closer ties with non-labor groups and associations of workers’ who lack bargaining rights.
BOSTON/East Boston – One current and one former employee of Delta Air Lines has sued the company over wages and overtime allegedly not paid to them and other flight attendants.
BOSTON/Park Street - On Wednesday morning, Boston area supporters awaited the sentencing of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning with bated breath and low expectations. Their fears were realized when Judge Col. Denise Lind sentenced Manning, accused of the largest leak of classified information in U.S.
The 3rd Digital Media Conference is coming up October 25-27 at Lesley University in Cambridge; so we thought we'd give everyone a bit of advance notice.
Springfield, Mass. - Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts have helped launch a class action suit against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
It's always puzzling to read articles in the American press on the subject of labor leaders running for office. Although I suppose I should be glad that any journalist at any major news outlet is still focusing on labor at all - even sporadically.
Framingham, Mass. – Former Lifeline Systems salesperson Denise Rock is suing the company claiming that she was unfairly terminated for raising concerns over allegedly fatal product faults.
BOSTON/South Boston - At least one Massachusetts State Trooper is being sued by a California man following his arrest at Logan Airport in 2011.