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...
Mar 17, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” A St. Patrick’s Mass on Irish Republican Struggle and a Legendary Troublemaker By Andrew S. The typical Bostonian understands St. Patty’s Day as a flurry of green clovers, the smell of ale, and the stench of whatever is left the next...
Mar 13, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” The strike, backed by the powerful Teamsters union, is an early bet that strike action can overcome Trump-administration backtracking on the rights of student-workers. Undergraduates, Teamsters Launch Strike Action WORCESTER, MA – As of...
Mar 12, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By Reid Jackson Stop & Shop Threatens Freetown Distribution Center with Shutdown Over Healthcare Policy FREETOWN, MA – Jason Linhares, a leasing contractor working with the Teamsters at the Stop & Shop Distribution Center in...
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...
