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GUEST OPINION ON EMERSON CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS: WE ARE NOT ALL IN THE SAME BOAT

Written by ILLONA YUKHAYEV Posted May 5, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Without a contract, we’d have no negotiating power. Without a union, we’d have no seat at the table.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: contract, Emerson, union, worker

THERE’S A CURE FOR AMAZON’S SNAP ABUSE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 23, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

"amazon warehouse" by hnnbz is licensed under CC BY 2.0

The labor movement needs to fight harder for justice for gig workers

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: activist, Amazon, Apparent Horizon, Benefits, Column, contingent, contractor, day labor, Democracy, Employment, gig, independent contractor, Jason Pramas, job, labor, legislation, organize, part time, policy, precarious, PRO Act, reform, regulation, temp, union, wages, worker, working conditions

CONNECTING THE DOTS: FROM THE INDIAN FARMERS’ UPRISING TO THE EFFECT NEOLIBERALISM HAS HAD GLOBALLY

Written by SONIKA GILL Posted March 5, 2021 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

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Is their struggle a global concern?

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: America, Democracy, farmer, globalization, India!, MSP, neoliberalism, Protest, union, uprising, usa

AS LABOR SECRETARY, WILL MARTY WALSH REPRESENT ALL WORKERS?

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 2, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Miami protestors support the “Fight for 15,” a campaign for a higher minimum wage. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Or just unionized construction workers… and the corporations that fund the Democrats

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, building trades, Column, criticism, Democracy, Jason Pramas, labor, laborers, LIUNA, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, mayor, policy, Politics, President Joe Biden, Secretary of Labor, union, worker

CLOSE ALL THE SCHOOLS NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 24, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update

Illustration by Scott Brundage

Act today to prevent a coronavirus explosion

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, children, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, education, Health, Jason Pramas, labor, mask, Massachusetts, parents, reopen, safety, student, teacher, union

OPEN LETTER TO UMASS PRESIDENT MEEHAN FROM UNIVERSITY UNIONS

Written by UMASS UNIONS UNITED Posted May 13, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS

Photo by Joseph Ramsey

Demands job protections, engagement with students, staff, and faculty on reopening campuses

Filed Under: COVID, Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, jobs, labor, letter, Marty Meehan, Massachusetts, opinion, slider, UMass, union

GIVE MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS TO WORKING JOURNALISTS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 10, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

This week, I joined fellow journalists, journalism educators, and members of the public at large in testifying on a bill to form a Mass journalism commission that is currently before the state legislature. In view of the potential importance of the initiative, ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, bill, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, communication, Democracy, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, journalism department, journalist, labor, legislature, Massachusetts, NABET, NewsGuild, public college, reform, Rep. Ed Coppinger, SAG-AFTRA, Sen. Diana DiZoglio, Society of Professional Journalists, testimony, transparency, union

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

VOTE NO! HARVARD CLERICAL UNION REP CRITICIZES UNION’S CONTRACT PROPOSAL

Written by GEOFF CARENS Posted November 27, 2018 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Image via HUCTW Instagram account

 

Harvard University is one of the largest employers ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: contract, criticism, Harvard University, higher ed, HUCTW, labor, Op-Ed, opinion, union

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