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 ...
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Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
There was no way I was going to criticize Question 1, prosaically dubbed the Nurse-Patient Assignment Limits ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
No sooner did the Supreme Judicial Court shoot down the “millionaires’ tax” referendum question last week than the Mass ... read more
Written by JASON PRAMAS Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS
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
Written by CHRIS FARAONE 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.”
Written by JASON PRAMAS 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.
Written by LUKAS VRBKA Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
New Hampshire activists ask for “platform based on community’s needs”
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
FALL BACK, PROTESTS AHEAD: OCTOBER IS FOR ACTIVISM
Written by DIG STAFF Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS
"We don't want a favor. We want to work to bring ourselves out of poverty."
Written by CHRIS FARAONE 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
Written by KATHERINE TAMOLA 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?”