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Community Voices: Do hard hats signify the return of Boston’s economy?
“One of the things that can tell you the economy has gotten better is to look up and see cranes in the sky.” Tracy Parks, a member of the Boston Workers Alliance and Laborers’ Local 151, told me that recently. And, it is not just cranes in the sky, but also shovels in the ground….
Hotel Workers Picket Hilton Boston Over Right To Form Union
Hotel workers picketed outside the Hilton Boston Downtown in the Financial District yesterday, marching and chanting to protest what organizers say is an anti-union campaign being conducted by hotel management. The employees recently notified management that they wanted to form a union. Since then, according to the head of the local hospitality workers union, managers…
Workers File New Club Complaint
Workers at the Harvard Club of Boston lodged a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last week alleging that the Club threatened workers to prevent them from participating in union activities and illegally surveilled workers participating in such activities. The Club and its workers are currently involved in another lawsuit, in which workers are…
