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QUESTION 1: THE ROAD NOT TRAVELLED

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 14, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

A broader appeal could have resulted in a win for nurses and patients

 

There was no way I was going to criticize Question 1, prosaically dubbed the Nurse-Patient Assignment Limits ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 1199SEIU, Apparent Horizon, ballot, Column, Health, hospital, initiative, Jason Pramas, labor, legislation, Mass Nurses Association, Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association, news, patient safety, Politics, question 1, referendum, SEIU, staffing

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

CAPITALIST VETO

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 19, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Money tips the scales of justice image

 

Popular “millionaires’ tax” referendum question blocked by a pro-business SJC

 

The Fair Share Amendment—better known as the “millionaires’ tax”—that would have gone before voters this November as a statewide referendum question  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, budget, Column, corporation, Democracy, economy, education, Fair Share amendment, graduated, higher education, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, millionaire's tax, MTA, news, Politics, public, referendum, rich, SEIU, Supreme Judicial Court, taxation, transportation, wealthy

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

CATCHING UP WITH TODAY’S #MAYDAY RALLYERS IN GREATER BOSTON

Written by DIG STAFF Posted May 1, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"We don't want a favor. We want to work to bring ourselves out of poverty."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, Boston, Chelsea Collaborative, Massachusetts, May Day, minimum wage, SEIU, workers

PICS & DISPATCH: PARK STREET FAST FOOD STRIKE FORESHADOWS THURSDAY #ENOUGHISENOUGH RALLY IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 4, 2014 Filed Under: News

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: News Tagged With: #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Boston Common, burger king, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Fight For 15, food unionism, hospitality workers, labor, minimum wage, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, SEIU, St. Louis

OH SNAP THAT’S RIGHT – WE GOT EARNED SICK TIME TOO!

Written by KATHERINE TAMOLA Posted November 10, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“When we were out collecting signatures, you’d run into people who’d be like, ‘I have earned sick time … doesn’t everybody?”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Andrew Farnitano, ballot initiative, Beacon Hill, Cindy Rowe, Commonwealth, Crawford Strategies, Earned Sick Time, Election, Grace Ross, Healthcare, lobbyists, Massachusetts, SEIU, worker rights, Yes On Question 4

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