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May Day Celebrated in Chelsea with Calls for Immigration Reform, Higher Minimum Wage

5 May 2014 - 3:52pm | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

Chelsea, Mass. - Highlighting ongoing immigration and labor issues, including the need for a path to citizenship and a higher minimum wage, Boston area activists celebrated International Workers' Day - better known as May Day - on Thursday.

Around 800 people took part in the event in the heart of Boston’s surrounding immigrant communities - with marches from East Boston, Everett and Revere to a rally at Chelsea City Hall.

Logan Flight Attendants Take on Delta Air Lines in Wage Allegations

25 August 2013 - 10:25pm | superuser
by Jonathan Adams

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.

Nancy DeSaint and Barbara Keenan claim that flight attendants for the company are typically not paid for the actual hours they work, and have launched a class action suit against the airline.

Boston’s Immigrant Community Celebrates May Day Rally Highlights Important Issues

2 May 2013 - 11:15pm | superuser
by Jonathan Adams

BOSTON/East Boston - Deportations, ongoing labor disputes, raising the minimum wage, health care, student loans, workplace safety, social security, housing foreclosures, bank debt, drivers’ licenses, and community investment were just some of the issues raised on May Day in East Boston.

Labor Advocates Call for a Living Wage for Logan Airport Contract Workers at East Boston Speakout

20 October 2011 - 11:46pm | superuser
by Annie Shreffler

BOSTON/East Boston - Nearly 100 people crowded into East Boston’s Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church Tuesday night, lending their voices to the growing cacophony of the underemployed, disenfranchised, uninsured and overworked who say they are part of the 99 percent.

May Day March Brings Hope Excitement to Boston Area Immigrant Neighborhoods

1 May 2009 - 11:27pm | superuser
by Jason Pramas

BOSTON/East Boston - Over 500 people from 2 dozen immigrant, labor and religious organizations marched through wind and rain to demand more rights for immigrants and better labor conditions for all in the United States on the traditional May 1st workers holiday today. The group processed from Central Square in East Boston past Chelsea City Hall to Glendale Park in Everett - meeting groups of supporters along the way. Thousands of residents of the predominantly immigrant neighborhoods smiled, cheered, or stared in surprise as the marchers passed them by on the 3 mile march route.

East Boston Neighborhood Close to Destruction After 40 Year Fight

27 June 2008 - 2:02pm | jpramas
by Zumix Journalism Group

BOSTON/East Boston - Recent developments in the 40 year fight to save the East Boston's Neptune Road neighborhood from destruction and incorporation into Logan Airport are chronicled in this two segment audio production by the Zumix Journalism Group, a radio training program for local high school kids based in East Boston. The latest battle in the fight with Massport - the state agency that runs Logan Airport - is an attempt to save the last house on Neptune Road and convert it into a visitor information center.

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