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BATTLE AT THE STATE HOUSE: RAISE THE WAGE
On Tuesday morning the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a public hearing on a new bill to raise the state’s minimum wage (SB 878/HB 1701), which, if passed, would be the first...
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NEWS TO US: LABOR DAZE
In a month that’s usually light on news of any kind, August proved to be an active time for organized labor. Here are just a few of the local stories that you might’ve missed while you were summering...
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SOAPBOX: BELLYACHES FROM ACROSS THE AGE GAP
There’s a certain kind of groan that accompanies the middle of any lecture on how those dern kids, once again, can’t get their act together. It can be audible, sounding like a mix between the response...
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INTERVIEW: SEIU ORGANIZER JASON STEPHANY
The gauntlet has been thrown. You may have seen Burger King workers walk off the job and picket last month in Dorchester. Perhaps you signed the ballot petition by Raise Up Massachusetts, which aims to...
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MBTA AFTER HOURS: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE NEW LATE-NIGHT TRAIN SERVICE IN...
When it comes to local transit history highlights, two particular milestones stick out. The more storied feat came in August 1897, when Boston ran the first successful subway trial in America. The...
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DIGFOGRAPHIC: YOUR #MAGOV14 MATRIX
Images by Scott Murry | @hotdogtaco There are still nearly two whole seasons between now and the statewide gubernatorial primaries in September, and even longer until the general election on November...
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FOOD FIGHT: THE HOPES, DREAMS, AND CHALLENGES OF LOCAL FOOD UNIONISM
Illustrations by Scott Murry In the past few years the stirrings of a new unionism have been quietly seeping through the Tea Party-drenched cracks of America’s post-recession hangover. Yet the most...
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#MAGOV Q&A: SCOTT LIVELY IS … THE 10TH MAN
Image by Scott Murry. Intro by Haley Hamilton & Chris Faraone. Two weeks ago, we ran a feature titled “9 Candidates For Governor Walk Into A Bar …” The headline reflected the number of hopefuls...
View ArticleSTRIKING HOTEL WORKERS RALLY IN CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD STUDENTS BACK THEM UP
“I am shocked and I am appalled and I am horrified that Harvard is taking choices away from its workers, that Harvard is giving DoubleTree workers the awful choice of caring for their bodies or keeping...
View ArticlePICS & DISPATCH: PARK STREET FAST FOOD STRIKE FORESHADOWS THURSDAY...
Images by Chris Faraone This afternoon’s fast food worker strike at the Burger King across from Park Street was kind of like the slogan on those juvenile old Co-Ed Naked Tennis t-shirts: They were...
View ArticleCATCHING UP WITH TODAY’S #MAYDAY RALLYERS IN GREATER BOSTON
"We don't want a favor. We want to work to bring ourselves out of poverty."
View ArticleLABOR REVOLT IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIK
"At the end of the day, the lesson will be that none of us really can live on $10 a day."
View ArticleFALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
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MANCHESTER DIVIDED: PROTEST PREP
Image via Occupy New Hampshire Seacoast At 6 pm on the day that the political establishment landed in New Hampshire following the Iowa caucus, it had already been dark for over an hour in...
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MANCHESTER DIVIDED: SEIU ‘FIGHTS FOR $15’ IN NH WHILE ITS CANDIDATE FIGHTS...
Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian The “protest pit” outside the Republican Presidential Debate at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire on Saturday evening was a fenced-in area in a field about...
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THE FIGHT FOR $15 CONTINUES (WHETHER YOU’RE WATCHING OR NOT)
Photos by Chris Faraone They waited at both entrances. On rainy Beacon Street and on the back side of the Massachusetts State House, chatting about work. And their children. And the holidays, plus...
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GUEST COLUMN: ‘THIS LABOR DAY I’M GOING ON STRIKE…’
Christina Barnes speaks to lawmakers on Beacon Hill This Labor Day I’m going on strike with tens of thousands of non-union workers in health care, fast food, higher education, airports and other...
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TERMS OF SERVICE: RAISING UP RESTAURANT WORKERS
Photo by Chris Faraone What tipped workers should know about the Fight for $15 Whenever I see people marching with Fight for $15 advocates who are advancing the platform for increasing the Mass...
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TIP HAPPENS: ABOUT TRUMP’S PROPOSED CHANGES TO GRATUITY SHARING
If you work in a restaurant, or know someone who works in a restaurant, odds are you have seen or heard about the proposed tip-sharing rule that President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor is...
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