By Eli Gerzon Brookline Starbucks Workers Continue Historic Strike One year ago there were no unionized Starbucks in the US. Then, this company with a “progressive” reputation and billions of dollars in profits was challenged by the source of those profits: their workers. It started in late 2021 when Starbucks stores in Buffalo, NY unionized.Continue reading “Historic Starbucks Strike Places Boston At Center of Labor Revival“
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Workers Strike Brookline Starbucks
By Agnes Smedley Picketing in the Heat Brookline– The doors are locked and the lights are off at the Starbucks at 874 Commonwealth Ave across from Boston University, as the workers strike until further notice. Working Mass joined Starbucks workers braving 90-degree temperatures on the picket line in front of the store on Wednesday, theContinue reading “Workers Strike Brookline Starbucks”
City Feed Workers Seek First Contract
By Michael Gutierrez Jamaica Plain: Workers at the grocery store City Feed & Supply voted to form a union this past June. The vote came on the heels of an outpouring of local support and rode the wave of a national unionizing trend in business sectors not traditionally associated with union representation. The vote wasContinue reading “City Feed Workers Seek First Contract”
AFL-CIO President Stumps For Boston DSA Candidate
By Henry De Groot Building Trades Canvass for Uyterhoeven SOMERVILLE – The AFL-CIO’s newly elected president Liz Shuler headlined a labor canvass for Boston DSA member and State Representative Erika Uyterhoeven this weekend. President Shuler drew supporters and riled up volunteers before hitting the doors herself. Uyterhoeven is seeking re-election as State Representative of theContinue reading “AFL-CIO President Stumps For Boston DSA Candidate”
Boston Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Agreement
By Henry De Groot *7/15 – Article has been updated to clarify the rate of proposed pay increases. Tentative Agreement Announced at AFT Convention This morning, Boston Teachers Union (BTU) President Jessica Tang announced that the union had reached a tentative agreement with the City of Boston. BTU members have been working for 11 monthsContinue reading “Boston Teachers Union Reaches Tentative Agreement”
Neo-Nazi March In Boston Shows Increasing Threat of Far-Right
by Henry De Groot De Groot shows last weekend’s fascist demonstration as part of serious escalation in fascist organizing around the US. He discusses the threat of fascism, the strategies and tactics required to defeat it, and the differences in ideology and class-basis between fascism and other far-right movements. Patriot Front Marches In Boston ThisContinue reading “Neo-Nazi March In Boston Shows Increasing Threat of Far-Right”
First Greater Boston Starbucks Unanimously Back Unionization
By Henry De Groot BROOKLINE — On Monday, two Greater Boston Starbucks stores voted unanimously to unionize. The 1304 Commonwealth Ave Starbucks in Allston voted 11-0 to unionize. The ballots of an additional 5 shift managers were challenged by the company, but the margin was such that the National Labor Relations Board certified without countingContinue reading “First Greater Boston Starbucks Unanimously Back Unionization”
Victory for Grad Workers, Left Unionists at MIT
By Henry De Groot On Wednesday, graduate student workers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) voted 1785 to 912 in support of unionizing with the MIT Graduate Student Union (MITGSU-UE), an affiliate of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE). The landslide victory overcame opposition from the university administration and setContinue reading “Victory for Grad Workers, Left Unionists at MIT”
Boston Labor Conference Measures Pandemic Impact, Labor Revival
On March 26, labor academics, journalists, and scholars joined with union members and leaders for the annual Boston Labor Conference in Dorchester.
Opinion: Bhaskar is Wrong – The Left is Not In Purgatory
By Henry De Groot Responding to Jacobin’s Bhaskar Sunkara, who writes in a February editorial that the socialist movement is stuck in purgatory, Henry De Groot contends that the last 10 years have been marked by incredible progress and that the socialist movement continues to take steps forward, even if we have work to do.Continue reading “Opinion: Bhaskar is Wrong – The Left is Not In Purgatory”
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