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Market Basket Workers, Customers United for “Artie T”

July 27, 2014 By john-hosty-grinnell 10 Comments

  The Market Basket board of directors faces unified opposition from both workers and customers who want the board to either reinstate ousted former CEO Arthur T. Demoulas (Artie T), or allow him to purchase the company. Judging by … [Read more...]

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“Si se puede!” Thousands March for May Day in East Boston

May 2, 2013 By massuniting Leave a Comment

In East Boston yesterday, chants of "Si se puede!" echoed throughout the city as more than 1,000 immigrant workers and community allies descended on Central Square in a massive call for improved wages, safer working conditions and … [Read more...]

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Happy 100th Birthday to the Minimum Wage! And Many Happy Returns.

June 4, 2012 By geraldfriedman 1 Comment

In a quiet ceremony on June 4, 1912, Governor Eugene Foss signed the nation's first statute for a minimum wage, "An Act Establishing the Minimum Wage Commission for the Determination of Minimum Wages for Women and Minors." While it may seem … [Read more...]

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Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Worker Leader and Time 100 Honoree, Will Speak at the Boston Care Congress on June 16th

June 3, 2012 By jbrelsfo Leave a Comment

Ai-Jen Poo, a gifted community organizer recently honored by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, will speak at the Greater Boston Care Congress on June 16th. The Congress will launch the Massachusetts … [Read more...]

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Corporations get bailed out, we get laid off…

September 27, 2009 By Rand Wilson 4 Comments

"Working families have been hit the hardest by this recession -- building trades, health care workers, manufacturing workers and public employees," said Robert Haynes, President of Massachusetts AFL-CIO.  "Despite signs that the … [Read more...]

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Low prices, low wages, low employment

August 6, 2009 By kirth 110 Comments

How does that last part happen? Like this:A Montana farm sold mint to an American toothpaste company. One day the toothpaste company mysteriously ceased its orders. Wal-Mart, the toothpaste company explained, had decided that by its … [Read more...]

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Will Walmart live up to their PR on Health Care this time?

July 10, 2009 By wuwm 1 Comment

Despite all of their feel-good rhetoric, the reality is that <a href="http://blog.wakeupwalmart.com/ufcw/2009/05/walmarts_new_ad.html" target="_blank">nearly half of Walmart’s 675,000 employees – not to mention … [Read more...]

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Harvard Students, Workers Fight Layoffs (W/ VIDEO)

April 21, 2009 By seth-pearce 1 Comment

In an open letter to Harvard University President Drew Faust, co-signed my many organizations including Harvard's Undergraduate Council SLAM writes: We write to you as members of the Harvard community because we are concerned with our … [Read more...]

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jglarussoJoe LaRusso 🔌 🕳🐇@jglarusso·
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Great threaded summary by @ssteingraber1 of remarks by @howarth_cornell relating fracking to rise in quantities of methane released into the atmosphere. https://twitter.com/ssteingraber1/status/1205901002467106816

Dr. Sandra Steingraber@ssteingraber1

1/ FRACKING THREAD. I’m here at the Ithaca Community School for Music and Arts to hear world methane expert @howarth_cornell present new science on #fracking and the climate crisis. Will try to live tweet. Full house! Lots of legendary grassroots leaders here.@MothersOutFront

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Curt_Nordgaard⛰🏔⛰@Curt_Nordgaard·
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The Massachusetts coastline flooded yesterday.

What happened? A high tide around the full moon. That's all.

Tell people around you that the global humanitarian and ecological crisis of climate change has already started. https://twitter.com/dotmalo/status/1205936919944847363

Dot Malone@DotMalo

It’s fine, I’ll wait til low tide to leave the house #Dorchester

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AlexSteffenAlex Steffen@AlexSteffen·
12 Dec

Our entire public debate is decades behind the realities we know we face now, and as we understand those realities better, most of our findings will reveal our problems to be even more pressing than we thought they were.

That's just what the 2020s are going be like. https://twitter.com/DrNoelHealy/status/1204204976953626624

Noel Healy@DrNoelHealy

This final slide from @MichaelEMann is devastating. The time for incremental climate policy is over.🚨He estimates annual emissions may have to drop by 15% a year (rather than 7.5%)🚨. In other words we have zero years to tackle climate change. We need a #GreenNewDeal now #GND

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Terrible, Terrible, Terrible https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/terrible-terrible-terrible

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TheViewFromLL2Susan Simpson@TheViewFromLL2·
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The take away of this story doesn't seem to be that impeachment is bad for Democrats. It's that opposing impeachment is so bad for Democrats they can't remain Democrats. https://twitter.com/AndrewDesiderio/status/1205949264515481600

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NEWS: Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a Democrat who opposes impeachment, plans to switch parties and become a Republican.

Staff were informed today. Question now is when, not if, he makes it official.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/jeff-van-drew-change-parties-085036

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