Massachusetts Labor News

Last updated 01/06/2009 - 3:58pm
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Breaking News

Last updated 01/06/2009 - 2:57pm
01/06/2009 - 2:57pm

Stronger penalties, greater enforcement authority, enhanced investigative tools aimed at restoring public confidence in government


01/06/2009 - 2:55pm

Verizon Business technicians, who gained union recognition with the IBEW and CWA in August, are finally united under their first labor agreement, which went into effect on December 28th. Click the headline above to read a press release from the IBEW and CWA.


12/22/2008 - 11:53am

Click the headline above to read a statement from AFL-CIO President John Sweeney about the creation of a White House Task Force on Working Families, to be chaired by Vice-President-elect Joe Biden.


12/18/2008 - 3:55pm

Click the headline above to read reaction to President-Elect Obama's selection for the next Secretary of Labor, including statements from the AFL-CIO and American Rights at Work.

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Top Stories

12/29/2008 - 4:41pm

 

"DRAKE BENNETT, in "Paradigm lost" (Ideas, Dec. 21) , observes that "the vast majority of us, after all, are not experts" on economic matters, "but academic economists are. [Yet] with very few exceptions, they did not predict the [current economic] crisis." The problem, it is suggested, is the "complexity of what has unfolded." I would suggest that part of the ..."


12/23/2008 - 5:54pm

Each year, Jobs with Justice awards the ‘Grinch of the Year’ award to the individual or group who has been the most flagrant abuser of workers' rights, or who has done the most to intentionally prevent working families from achieving a better life. Click the headline above to see why Wall St. execs took home this years prize.


12/22/2008 - 11:47am

Click the headline above to read about President-elect Obama's pick for Labor Secretary, Representative Hilda Solis of California, and find out how you can tell the new Secretary of Labor what issues are important to you.

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Latest Videos

Ivo Camilo was fired after trying to form a union at Blue Diamond Growers.

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Happenings and Announcements

01/06/2009 - 10:12am

MassCOSH is currently seeking a Membership and Communications Coordinator. Click the headline above for the full job posting.


12/19/2008 - 5:53pm

The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM) is seeking an interim Development and Administrative Director. Click the headline above for the job posting.

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Visit our online photo gallery and meet the people behind the state's most powerful labor organization.

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SOS - Share Organizing Successes! Whenever your union has been involved in a successful organizing campaign, please send us some information so that we can your stories of success with brothers and sisters across Massachusetts.

Labor in the Community

Read this great letter from one of our 2006 scholarship winners.

If you or your union are involved in charitable work or other contributions to the community at-large, please send us some information so we can help you recruit support and spread the word about the many good works done by the labor movement in the area.

Workers Independent News

Employee Free Choice Act -- AFL-CIO

After more than five hours of historic debate, the House of Representatives passed the most important labor law reform legislation in 70 years.

By a margin of 241 to 185, the House passed H.R. 800, which would level the playing field when workers seek to form a union and bargain. Thirteen Republicans joined 228 Democrats in voting for the bill. Two Democrats and 183 Republicans voted against the bill.


Watch a video of Congressman Stephen Lynch, Lt. Gov. Tim Murray and Sen. John Kerry do a card check for Verizon business techs.

 

 

Mass. Labor Leaders Speak out on EFCA

President Haynes Speaks Out to Support Verizon Workers


President Haynes in front of Verizon headquarters.

Video: Ted Kennedy on the Minimum Wage


What is it with Republicans and their refusal to help the working class?