Museum Employees Unionize in Boston
On October 14th, unionized workers for the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) ended a 19-day strike after reaching a hesitant labor agreement. The agreement, which was ratified on the 16th ...Jamaica Plain Comes Together to Support City Feed and Supply Union
In front of the towering gray Soldiers Monument at the corner of Centre Street and South Street in Jamaica Plain, more than a hundred people gathered on Sunday, April 24 ...Cleveland Circle Starbucks Votes to Unionize With Three Other MA Locations
Workers at Boston College’s favorite Starbucks location, Cleveland Circle, voted 8-2 to form a union on Tuesday. Yaakov Horwath, an employee at the Cleveland Circle location, told the Boston Globe ...The Gavel's Introduction to 'Abolish Restaurants'
The conditions that create intense work and intense boredom in a restaurant are the same that create 'law and order' and development in some countries, and wars, famines, and poverty ...BC Grad Marty Walsh Becomes the Next Mayor of Boston
For the first time in two decades, the city of Boston has a new mayor. State Representative Martin J. Walsh defeated At-Large City Councilor John R. Connolly 51.8% to 48.2% ...Opinion: Labor is part of the solution, not the problem
Blaming labor unions for economic failure does not make sense in the wake of Detroit's bankruptcy.