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...
