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?
GRAND SCHEME
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 legislature rammed a so-called grand bargain bill (H 4640) through both chambers. A move aimed at shoring up tax revenue threatened by […]
TERMS OF SERVICE: RAISING UP RESTAURANT WORKERS
What tipped workers should know about the Fight for $15
GUEST COLUMN: ‘THIS LABOR DAY I’M GOING ON STRIKE…’
‘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.’
THE FIGHT FOR $15 CONTINUES (WHETHER YOU’RE WATCHING OR NOT)
“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.”
MANCHESTER DIVIDED: SEIU ‘FIGHTS FOR $15’ IN NH WHILE ITS CANDIDATE FIGHTS FOR $12
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.
MANCHESTER DIVIDED: PROTEST PREP
New Hampshire activists ask for “platform based on community’s needs”
FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
BOSTON’S BESTEST ANNUAL GRATUITOUS SEASONAL PROTEST PIECE
With such precedents in mind, it’s important to keep watch as younger actions blossom, and as veteran activists find new direction.
PICS & DISPATCH: PARK STREET FAST FOOD STRIKE FORESHADOWS THURSDAY #ENOUGHISENOUGH RALLY IN BOSTON
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 in, they were out, it was over. Short as their lunchtime rally was, workers with the Fight for $15 […]
