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Fight For 15

RECYCLING FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 2, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted April 12, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For the first time in the city’s history, Boston’s living wage ordinance might finally get applied to low-paid workers sorting the city’s recycling ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: LIVING ON SCRAPS

Written by COLE ROSENGREN Posted July 12, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Boston is aiming to achieve “zero waste,” which some say can create more living-wage jobs. Is part of this lofty goal rooted in the region’s dirtiest hypocrisy?

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: ACE, ACORN, Activism, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, casella, charlestown, curbside recycling, Dorothy Kelly Gay, Fight For 15, Fighting for a Living Wage, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Joe Curtatone, KTI Recycling, labor, living wage, Los Angeles, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health, MassCOSH, mayor curtatone, mayor Marty Walsh, menino, New York, OSHA, recology, recyclable, recycling, Seattle, SOMERVILLE, Stephanie Luce, Teamsters, union, wages, workplace safety, zero waste

GRAND SCHEME

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 26, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

workers protesting

 

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

 

No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, bill, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, family and medical leave, Fight For 15, general court, Gov Charlie Baker, graduated, grand bargain, higher education, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Speaker Robert DeLeo, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

TERMS OF SERVICE: RAISING UP RESTAURANT WORKERS

Written by HALEY HAMILTON Posted October 3, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

What tipped workers should know about the Fight for $15

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Fight For 15, Haley Hamilton, minimum wage, Raise Up, Restaurants, Terms of Service, tipped workers, tips

GUEST COLUMN: ‘THIS LABOR DAY I’M GOING ON STRIKE…’

Written by CHRISTINA BARNES Posted August 31, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

'I work two jobs not by choice but because I don’t receive enough hours at either job to cover my basic needs to support my family. With each paycheck that I earn I have to stretch.'

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Fast Food, Fight For 15, labor day, McDonald's, minimum wage, organizing, union, unions

THE FIGHT FOR $15 CONTINUES (WHETHER YOU’RE WATCHING OR NOT)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted November 29, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“I am fighting for a decent paycheck. I never thought I would be in the streets protesting, but I can’t survive on what I make now.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, Beacon Street, east boston, Fast Food, Fight For 15, labor organizing, living wage, Logan Airport, Mariama White-Hammond, minimum wage, SEIU, State House, state legislature, union

MANCHESTER DIVIDED: SEIU ‘FIGHTS FOR $15’ IN NH WHILE ITS CANDIDATE FIGHTS FOR $12

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 8, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

What doesn't make sense is why SEIU pulled out 500 people onto a chilly windswept hill in suburban New Hampshire to protest for a laudable reform that their chosen presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, absolutely does not support.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Bernie Sanders, bird-dogging, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Christie, Christians, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Fight For 15, Fiorina, FITN, Granite State Organizing Project, Hillary Clinton, Iowa, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, livable wage, living wage, Manchester, Manchester Divided, Marco Rubio, minimum wage, New Hampshire, Newbury, polls, primaries, Primary, Protest, Radisson, SEIU, Ted Cruz

MANCHESTER DIVIDED: PROTEST PREP

Written by LUKAS VRBKA Posted February 4, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

New Hampshire activists ask for “platform based on community’s needs”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Bernie Sanders, bird-dogging, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Christie, Donald Trump, Fight For 15, Fiorina, FITN, Granite State Organizing Project, Hillary Clinton Activism, Iowa, John Kasich, livable wage, living wage, Manchester, Manchester Divided, Marco Rubio, minimum wage, New Hampshire, Newbury, polls, primaries, Primary, Protest, Radisson, SEIU, Ted Cruz

FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM

Written by DIG STAFF Posted September 30, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2015, autumn, Beacon Hill, body cameras, Boston, Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee, Boston Public Health Commission, Byron Rushing, City Hall, Evandro Carvalho, Fall, Fight For 15, homelessness, Long Island, Mary Keefe, Mass Police Reform, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, minimum wage, October, opiates, Pat Jehlen, police brutality, police shootings, protests, Raise Up, SEIU, Shelters, SOMERVILLE, treatment

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