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Recent Labor News
02/21/2012 - 7:22pm
Wicked Local
In November 2010, the technicians at Boch Honda voted to join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) but they are sill without a contract. The technicians were joined on Sunday by hundreds of union supporters to pressure Boch Honda to agree to a contract with its workers.
(left-right) Jim Masandrea, President of Local 264, Pieter Blaauw, who is a member of Local 264 and Sean Connolly, who is a member of <b>Local 103</b> participate in an informational rally outside Boch Honda being held by the dealership's technicians, <b>...</b>
02/21/2012 - 11:41am
WWLP 22News
Local 108 says the city didn't follow through on its promised wages and is going to bat for its members to make sure they get what's owed them.
02/21/2012 - 9:13am
Courthouse News Service
SEIU Local 509 says Massachusetts violated the Pacheco Law, which requires that the state prove privatization will save money, when it outsourced 100 case managers from the Department of Mental Health.
02/20/2012 - 4:46am
Wicked Local
Looking to expand bus service in Fall River, President Eric Carvalho of ATU Local 100, made his case at a public hearing before the mayor on behalf of bus riders.
02/20/2012 - 12:06am
Fall River Herald News
Evelyn Moniz, a 92-year-old former labor organizer and current Recording Secretary with the New England Joint Board of UNITE HERE, has written a book about her work with unions.
02/19/2012 - 2:08am
Boston.com
An article in the Boston Globe insinuates that Romney is a hypocrite for supporting funding of the Quinn bill while governor of Massachusetts and then he criticizing other presidential candidates for supporting unions.
12/21/2011 - 8:26am
New York Times
Instead of the inflatable rat that has become ho-hum at union protests in New York, a giant three-headed dog with fangs was the effigy on display as about 250 unionized nurses rallied outside the Midtown headquarters of the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. Last year the firm added 10 mostly Catholic community hospitals in the Boston area to its portfolio, promising to keep the same level of services or to provide even better services. But carrying signs that proclaimed “Cerberus Is a Lying Dog,” and that urged “Get Wall Street Out of Health Care,” members of the nurses’ union, National Nurses United, accused the firm of proving to be more like its namesake, the canine monster in Greek mythology that guarded the gates of hell.
12/21/2011 - 8:19am
The Patriot Ledger
A group representing nonunion construction workers is calling for the city to rework its ordinance that requires companies that win construction contracts to hire Quincy residents.
12/21/2011 - 5:59am
Wicked Local
National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) Branch 34, headquarters in Woburn, has raised $23,000 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
12/21/2011 - 5:49am
Wicked Local
After the holiday lights are extinguished in January patrons will finally be able to find the library in the dark. On Nov. 18 and 19, local residents who belong to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 103 (IBEW) got together and volunteered their time to make the lighting project happen. The materials were purchased by the town through State Aid to Libraries funding. It’s estimated that the town was saved $12,000 through the efforts of the volunteers.
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