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OPEN LETTER TO UMASS PRESIDENT MEEHAN FROM UNIVERSITY UNIONS
Demands job protections, engagement with students, staff, and faculty on reopening campuses
GIVE MA JOURNALISM COMMISSION SEATS TO WORKING JOURNALISTS
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, ...
RECYCLING FOLLOW-UP: THE ROAD TO ZERO
Despite a relative win for recycling workers, living wage advocates pledge to keep on fighting
WILL BOSTON SET A NEW REGIONAL PRECEDENT AND FINALLY PAY RECYCLING WORKERS A LIVING WAGE?
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 ...
VOTE NO! HARVARD CLERICAL UNION REP CRITICIZES UNION’S CONTRACT PROPOSAL
PIZZA BARONS LAY OFF 1,100: PAPA GINO’S & D’ANGELO WORKERS NEED TO ORGANIZE FOR JUSTICE
Mainstream press coverage of mass layoffs like Sunday’s shutdown of almost 100 Papa Gino’s and D’Angelo fast food restaurants generally looks upon such tragic events through a glass, darkly. Because journalism in the service of the rich and powerful is a ...
FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART III)
PRESSURE FROM BELOW
“People in this country are being taught to think that they don’t deserve pensions, that they don’t deserve good health care coverage ... But it doesn’t have to be this way.”
FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART II)
In part one (DigBoston, ...
