Jul 22, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:”Trader Joe’s United union buttons. (Trader Joe’s United) By: Chris Brady Hadley, M.A. – The sleepy town of 5,000 next to Amherst is usually known for its annual asparagus festival and university move-in day traffic. But in mid-2022,...
Jul 11, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By: Emma Buckley The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Issue 1 of The Internationalist, the Boston-based paper of CW Fitzgerald, an early leader of the...
Jul 7, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By: Frederick Reiber BOSTON, MA – While the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only 11.1 percent of the workforce is covered by a union, nonetheless, support for unions remains at a 70-year high. Over half of American workers...
Jul 3, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” Republic Services workers, Teamsters representatives, and North Shore Labor Council members on Day Two of the Strike. Photo by Mark Nelson. PEABODY, MA – Over 400 sanitation workers across Massachusetts went on strike on Tuesday, July 2,...
Jun 25, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By: Maxine Bouvier SOMERVILLE, MA – Since March, 2025, Somerville City Councillor-at-Large Willie Burnley Jr.’s campaign for the city’s highest executive office has been endorsed by Boston DSA. In April, the Somerville branch of the...
Jun 24, 2025 | Labor, Working Mass
[[{“value”:” By: Eric L BOSTON, MA – On May 21, 2025, Working Mass and Boston DSA hosted a forum to discuss the attempted dissolution of Unite All Workers for Democracy (UAWD), a rank-and-file caucus within United Auto Workers (UAW), and the...
