Apr 23, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Maxine Bouvier BOSTON, MA – In a nation that does not guarantee its citizens healthcare as a right, people are regularly left with the impossible choice of getting the care they need or acquiring vast medical debt. While 90% of...
Apr 18, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Richard S Cambridge, MA – Massachusetts labor activists were some of the first movers to confront South African apartheid and push for US divestment and sanctions. These efforts bore fruit in 1982 legislation divesting Massachusetts...
Apr 11, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Freddy R WALTHAM, MA – Research associates, academic administrators, department coordinators, and academic advisors started 2025 by voting to unionize under SEIU 888 at Brandeis University. Motivated by pay freezes, increased...
Apr 10, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” An effort by the majority group to dissolve the reform caucus highlights on-going internal tensions over the direction of the caucus By Henry De Groot Tensions within the Unite All Workers For Democracy (UAWD) reform caucus within the...
Apr 9, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Siobhan M. CAMBRIDGE, MA — With the support of Cambridge Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) members, residents of the Transition Wellness Center at Spaulding Hospital called on the Cambridge City Council at Monday’s meeting to...
Apr 8, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Henry De Groot, Travis Wayne, Reid Jackson, Aaron Hall Tuesday, March 25: Tufts Union Worker Detained By ICE In Somerville By Henry De Groot SOMERVILLE, MA – Tufts University PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish national, was...
Mar 31, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” by Travis Wayne The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. On Tuesday night, ICE abducted Rumeysa Ozturk. A Turkish national with a valid F-1 visa, Rumeysa is a...
Mar 26, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” All out to free Rumeysa! This is a developing story. SOMERVILLE, MA – Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Tuesday evening. Ozturk is a member of...
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Mar 22, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Nick Lavin In the whirlwind of unconstitutional executive orders from the Trump administration, it’s easy to miss the storm brewing over the 2026 Massachusetts budget. BEACON HILL—Governor Healey’s “fiscally sustainable” budget...
Mar 21, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA — As Starbucks Workers United continues to organize for respect on the job, workers have begun escalating pressure on the company locally and across the country. Since 2021, over 550 stores representing...
