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FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART III)

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 10, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, As We Are magazine, Belden Electronics, Campaign on Contingent Work, charlatan, chiropractic, chiropractor, Column, Health, IBM, injury, Jason Pramas, labor, labor day, Manpower, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, medicine, NAFFE, National Alliance for Fair Employment, National Writers Union, New Liberation News Service, NLNS, North American Alliance for Fair Employment, Northeast Action, NWU, OCMEA, Organizing Committee for a Massachusetts Employees Association, Project on Contingent Work, quack, safety, science, temp, UAW, union, United Auto Workers

FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART II)

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 3, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Photo by ekamelev. CC0 Public Domain.

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Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Belden Electronics, charlatan, chiropractic, chiropractor, Column, Health, IBM, injury, Jason Pramas, labor, labor day, Manpower, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, medicine, quack, safety, science, temp, union

FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART I)

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 5, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

 

Every once and a while, I move slightly differently than usual. Maybe I shift position too fast. Maybe I pick up something a bit too heavy. Maybe I’m sitting askew for just a bit too long. Whatever the cause, one second I’m fine… and the next, my old ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Belden Electronics, Column, Health, IBM, injury, Jason Pramas, labor, labor day, Manpower, safety, temp, union, Vermont

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

COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: DON’T WEAR WHITE AFTER…

Written by ERIC BOEKER Posted September 11, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: blood, brain eating, brains, coffee, comic strip, comics, death, disapproving girlfriends, eric boeker, geek, horror, horror art, horror comedy, horror comic, humor, kale, labor day, laugh, Laugh Cartoon Comics, meta, punk rock, shakespeare, sunday, Sunday Comics, sunday comics project, sundaycomic, undead, walking dead, webcomic, weird, white, Zombie, zombie art, Zombie Comedy, zombie comic, zombie webcomic

APPARENT HORIZON: LABOR BLUES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 10, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It has been decades since the Democratic Party has been reliably pro-labor—which means that neither major party genuinely supports American workers in this era.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, AFL-CIO, Barack Obama, Boston, Carmen's Union, Democrats, Governor Charlie Baker, labor, labor day, Protest, Republicans, Steve Tolman

EXCLUSIVE: YOUR FIRST LOOK AT COPPERSMITH 1894 OPENING IN SOUTH BOSTON

Written by DAN MCCARTHY Posted September 1, 2015 Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE

The long-awaited new ambitious South Boston restaurant complex, is now in the home stretch to be open and will be doing so just as your Labor Day hangovers are nearing their end.

Filed Under: Eats, LIFESTYLE Tagged With: 1894, airstream, BBQ, cafe, coffee shop, copper manufacturing, coppersmith hall, food trucks, labor day, local, opening, raw bar, red door hospitality, roof deck, street food, travis talbot

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