Boston

Big hotel chains hit with Labor Day weekend strike

By Ed Childs and Otis Grotewohl Represented by UNITE HERE, more than 10,000 hotel workers went on strike in cities…

September 12, 2024

Massachusetts health care activists demand: Restore COVID-19 protections now! 

Boston The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity (Mass. CHE) held an online press conference on April 5 to demand the…

April 28, 2023

Boston Marches for Indigenous Peoples Day

Protesters will march through the streets of Boston on Oct. 8 to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts celebrate Indigenous…

September 22, 2022

Huelga a Starbucks en Boston

Boston Fue una semana histórica para el movimiento de trabajadores en los Estados Unidos, ya que los trabajadores de Starbucks…

August 11, 2022

Boston Starbucks Workers United strikes against unfair labor practices

Boston Striking members of Boston Starbucks Workers United made U.S. labor history this week, shutting down their store at 874…

July 25, 2022

Boston Starbucks workers strike for safety

Boston May 31 — Less than a month after their May 3 vote to unionize, workers at the Cleveland Circle…

June 3, 2022

Boston union to Starbucks’ Schultz: “We don’t want your NFTs or union busting!”

It quickly turned into a celebration with TikTok dancing when dozens of Starbucks workers, unionized baristas from Pavement Café and…

April 22, 2022

Boston community-labor rally for striking Machinists

March 7 — Leaders of the Greater Boston Labor Council and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, along with powerhouse rank-and-file unionists like…

March 17, 2022

‘Solidarity with the people, not the state’

Skehan delivered the Workers World Party solidarity message at the Dec. 12 action called by the Boston South Asian Coalition…

December 15, 2020

Black workers resist union-busting Boston gentrifier 

A June 16 action for eight laid-off workers — organized just four days after the announcement they had been fired…

June 25, 2020