06/09/2010 - 12:54am
Community groups and unions who want to put the state’s 307,900 unemployed workers back on the job are rallying at the State House for a federal proposal to create 1 million jobs nationwide.
06/09/2010 - 12:54am
With working families trying to stretch every dollar to make ends meet, the City Council in Northampton, Mass., last night unanimously gave final approval to a resolution defining a living wage as a human right.
06/05/2010 - 3:03am
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 current and former employees in Massachusetts, the largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement in the state’s history.
04/08/2010 - 12:44am
Nearly 600 workers at Norwood Hospital, ranging from respiratory therapists to housekeepers, will join the Service Employees International Union as the result of an election yesterday.
04/03/2010 - 2:51am
"Hundreds of angry union workers marched through downtown Boston yesterday to protest recent layoffs at the Hyatt Hotel and planned cutbacks at other firms including Verizon."
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03/29/2010 - 3:55pm
03/29/2010 - 3:55pm
School committee members voted through a sweeping package of cuts and layoffs aimed at closing a $60 million shortfall as hundreds of horn-blowing, sign-toting teachers, custodians and parents mobbed school department headquarters last night in a raucous protest.
03/08/2010 - 4:49pm
Advocates for voter participation and for low-income families are joining forces in an effort to defeat initiative petitions that would chop the state sales tax to 3 percent from 6.25 percent and repeal the new state sales tax on alcohol purchases.
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02/24/2010 - 12:54pm
St. Louis-based Belden will close a manufacturing plant in Leominster, Mass., by July 2010, leaving 170 people out of work.
02/23/2010 - 2:54am
"Fire Department officials are preparing their most compelling argument for federal stimulus funding to hire several firefighters, Chief Kevin Roy said Thursday."