Feb 21, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:”Higher education workers joined federal employees at the Tip O’Neil Federal Building during the back-to-back rallies. Photo by Vanessa B/Working Mass. By Chris Brady WEST END – More than 300 federal workers, union members, and community...
Feb 6, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” Other Surveillance Technology Proposals Pass Council, Despite Community Opposition By Siobhan M. CAMBRIDGE — Community members flooded a meeting of the Cambridge City Council on Monday evening, successfully pushing the City Council to...
Feb 5, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” Remembering the 8-week Strike on its 113th Anniversary By Ben Cabral LAWRENCE – On January 11, 1912, women textile workers walked off their jobs in protest of a cut to their pay. The industrial action would quickly grow to include more...
Feb 1, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” This contribution was originally published by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), and has been republished with permission. It does not represent the official position of Working Mass. Statement of the UE...
Jan 31, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Aaron Hall BOSTON—On Saturday afternoon, members of the Blue Bottle Independent Union (BBIU) performed a walkout at three of their locations. The walkouts took place at exactly 12:30 pm at Kendall and Newbury, and 2:30pm at Chestnut...
Jan 31, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:”Tufts’ full-time faculty union held a rally Monday morning to mark the beginning of the two day strike. Maxine Bouvier & Vanessa Bartlett MEDFORD– Full-time lecturers at Tufts University started their two-day strike Monday morning...
Jan 27, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Sarah Plutnicki FITCHBURG – After months of negotiating, the final contract between Fitchburg Public Schools (FPS) and the Fitchburg Education Association (FEA) was finally approved by the district school committee and union members...
Jan 24, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Chris Brady NEW BEDFORD – Visiting this city on Buzzards Bay in Massachusetts’s South Coast region, you might not expect that it was not just once, but twice the richest city per capita in North America — first from whaling, and then...
Jan 24, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” The views expressed in this article are the authors’ own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. BUGWU members rally for a contract – Working Mass 2024. By Freddy Reiber Boston University has a long history with labor...
Jan 22, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Chris Brady Federal workers are used to being vilified. It’s a convenient punching down opportunity for politicians and pundits; our government doesn’t work, and the mascot of this inefficiency is the faceless bureaucrat, paid by the...
