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...
Jan 18, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Vanessa Bartlett and Aaron Hall BTU members rally in Jamaica Plain on Thursday, January 16. BOSTON—On Thursday morning, public school teachers across Boston participated in informational pickets at three Boston schools prior to the...
Jan 14, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” Restricting Trans Students’ Rights Would Also Gut Healthcare Nondiscrimination Law By Siobhan M. Earlier this month, House Republicans passed Speaker Mike Johnson’s rules package for the new Congress, which set a list of bills...
Jan 14, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Chris Brady Austin, Texas – This past Thursday, AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler and SEIU President April Verret announced the merging of their respective unions at the annual AFL-CIO’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Civil and Human Rights...
Jan 10, 2025 | Chapter Updates, Labor
SOMERVILLE, MA — Unit B of the Somerville Municipal Employees Union (SMEU) has at last obtained a contract from the City of Somerville after their prior contract expired more than 900 days ago. SMEU’s members voted to ratify the new contract this week. The union...
Jan 9, 2025 | Cambridge, Chapter Updates, Labor
Cambridge, MA – Boston DSA congratulates our friends and neighbors in the Cambridge Public Library Staff Association on their hard-fought contract victory. After over a year of struggling for their rights, the CPLSA won a contract that achieved all of their primary...
Jan 7, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:”DSA members and other community supporters attend hearing at Worcester City Hall on Dec. 17. By Ivy Elliot The Department of Justice Report WORCESTER – On December 9, 2024, the Department of Justice released a report describing horrific,...
Jan 7, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By the Editorial Board Trump’s Threat To Labor Donald Trump’s comeback election is an unprecedented threat to the labor and socialist movements. In his first term and on January 6, Trump flirted with right wing authoritarian tendencies....
