Massachusetts
25 days on strike at Starbucks: Interview with worker and organizer Spencer Costigan
August 12, 2022Workers at 874 Commonwealth Avenue walked off the job over a divisive anti-union benefits plan and the installation of an awful new manager.
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Massachusetts primary pits progressives Markey and Morse vs. Kennedy and Neal
August 31, 2020Polls have Markey, backed by AOC and Sanders, ahead of Kennedy, backed by Pelosi.
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Pipelines vs. community rights: a New England democracy lesson
July 8, 2014Among neighboring towns, more than a dozen so far have called town meetings and voted to reassert community rights as the ultimate authority before approving such projects.
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Today in labor history: 1919 Boston police strike
September 9, 2013Nothing fueled the anti-union Red Scare propagandists more than the Boston police strike of 1919.
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Hunt for bomber locks down Boston area
April 19, 2013On Friday, with one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings dead, his brother was on the run and being pursued by hundreds of law enforcement officials in a manhunt that shut down Boston and several neighboring...
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