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Members of the BUGWU strike gather outside CDS on Monday. ZACH SCHWARTZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

GALLERY: First week of graduate workers strike commences

Sarah Cruz March 31, 2024

GALLERY: First week of graduate workers strike commences by Sarah Cruz, Brenda Gonzalez, Holly Gustavsen, Kate Kotlyar, Molly Potter, Sydney Roth and Zach Schwartz  See...

Jessica Carangui, a lead preschool teacher at the Boston University Children’s Center. BUCC teachers unionized last August but are still negotiating contracts over a year later. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

‘Not sustainable anymore’: BU Children’s Center teachers’ union continues to fight for contract

Anjali Byju December 8, 2023
Boston University Children’s Center teachers unionized in an effort to address understaffing and low pay and to achieve a voice on the job in August 2022.
Woburn Teacher strike

Woburn teachers end week-long strike with new deal

Sujena Soumyanath February 9, 2023
Woburn Teachers Association must pay a $225,000 fine to the city following a five-day strike for better working conditions.
Union workers

Boston University reaches agreement with BU workers to increase salaries

Sheik Floradewan November 17, 2022
32BJ Service Employees International Union reached an agreement with BU for custodians, tradespeople and grounds and maintenance workers at BU and BUMC.
construction worker walks across a steel beam

Janey announces programs aimed at tackling city contract inequity

Sam Trottenberg April 12, 2021
The new Boston Contracting Opportunity Fund will grant up to $15,000 to companies looking to bid.
unite here local 26 food giveaway in downtown boston

Labor union distributes food to recently fired Nine Zero Hotel employees

Madison Mercado April 5, 2021
The hotel fired 52 employees — more than two-thirds of its staff — in March.
Emma Moneuse/DFP STAFF

Gaming the System: Esports pros need collective bargaining, too

Nick Speranza March 25, 2021
We need to establish esports unions so we can support players and give them more freedom.
East to West: I Couldn't Vote Absentee

East to West: I Couldn’t Vote Absentee

Michelle Chan November 16, 2018

On this week’s episode of East to West, we discussed the BU community remembering a Warren Towers security guard who passed away, income-restricted housing in Boston, BU students who didn’t receive...

A BU police officer hands out fliers to students on Commonwealth Avenue to garner support for the unionization of BU Police Officers and Sergeants. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BUPD patrolmen, sergeants fight for “fair” job contract

Grace Li April 28, 2016

Boston University Police Department officers have passed out flyers along Commonwealth Avenue for the past week to spread awareness that BUPD’s 46 patrolmen and eight sergeants have been working...

Massachusetts legislators filed bills in January 2014 to limit or ban contracts restricting employees from working for competitors. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Liberating their labor, businesses opt not to non-compete

Blake Snelling April 23, 2015

Massachusetts legislators have spent the last seven years debating non-compete agreements, which prevent employees from taking positions at rival companies. Despite former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s...

After Verizon FiOS and FOX 25 failed to reach a contract agreement regarding carriage fees Thursday, approximately 400,000 Verizon subscribers in Massachusetts will lose access to the news channel. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMILY ZABOSKI/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Verizon FiOS customers left without FOX 25 after failure to reach contract agreement

Paige Smith December 1, 2014

Approximately 400,000 Greater Boston area Verizon FiOS television customers were without FOX 25 on Thursday, following a failure to reach a contract agreement regarding carriage fees. The negotiations...

Boston University union workers ratified a contract Monday that will give them a 10 percent raise over four years and allow them to maintain health care benefits. PHOTO BY FELICIA GANS/DFP FILE PHOTO

BU workers ratify four-year contract agreement

Mina Corpuz November 6, 2014

Following a vote on a tentative contract agreement between Boston University workers and the university administration, the local chapter of the 32BJ Service Employees International Union ratified a...

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