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The Daily Free Press

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Cutting costs by cutting jobs will not save the gaming industry | Full Inventory

Chloe Cramutola February 20, 2025
The gaming industry has been blown to pixelated bits. It’s not because of its games. It’s not the expensive, downloadable content or DEI controversies. It’s how the industry is treating its workers — the very talents who make the games we know and love.
UNITE HERE Local 26 union members picketing outside of W Boston hotel on Tremont Street on Sept. 13. Workers from multiple Boston hotels are engaging in an open-ended strike while they wait for their employers to reach a contract agreement with the UNITE HERE Local 26 union. LAUREN ALBANO/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

UNITE HERE Local 26 workers strike indefinitely at four Omni, Hilton hotels

Liam Dunne October 15, 2024
Nearly 1,300 workers at four Boston hotels embarked on an “open-ended strike” this past week after giving hotels a deadline to reach a contract agreement with their union.
A ballot drop box outside of the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library. Question 3 on the Massachusetts ballot regards an initiative to allow transportation network drivers to unionize. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

Proposed Question 3 ballot to allow Uber, Lyft drivers to unionize

Liam Dunne October 9, 2024
Question 3, a ballot measure seeking to allow unionization and collective bargaining for transportation network drivers, has sparked support from Massachusetts state senators, but Uber and Lyft remain neutral.
The Boston University Graduate Workers Union and the ResLife Union march outside Warren Towers on Sept. 3, the first day of classes. The ResLife Union began a strike on Aug. 31. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

BUGWU holds rally on first day of classes, continues to demand fair contract amid prolonged strike

Samantha Genzer September 3, 2024

The Boston University Graduate Workers Union  held a walkout and rally at Marsh Plaza today, as the union continues to demand better wages and working conditions from the University. BUGWU has been...

Protestors walk around Marsh Plaza with signs before the walkout on Wednesday. KATE KOTLYAR/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

GALLERY: BUGWU holds walkout on last day of classes

Andrew Burke-Stevenson May 4, 2024
The Boston University Graduate Workers Union held a walkout on Wednesday, the final day of classes, in response to Provost Ken Lutchen’s email.
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...

South Campus resident assistant Guenlsy Desir (Wheelock ‘24) in her dorm. The GPA policy for residence life workers is causing housing insecurity among some employees. MATTHEW EADIE/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

GPA policy causes housing insecurity among RAs

Mara Mellits March 4, 2024
An RA signed her contract for the following year. Then, she was fired. Guensly Desir was all set to RA for the 2023-24 academic year. That was until she got fired less than a week before the semester started due to the enforcement of a GPA policy.  
Janet Bailey, part-time-faculty union member of Boston University’s Metropolitan College. Part-time faculty, consisting of adjuncts, lecturers and instructors, are spreading awareness about their current job instability, low wages and lack of institutional support. ANDREW BURKE-STEVENSON/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

‘They don’t know who we are’: Part-time faculty union advocates for better treatment from BU

Karyna Cheung February 9, 2024
Part-time faculty consists of adjuncts, lecturers and instructors. Collectively, part-time faculty unionized in 2015 and are still raising awareness about their current job instability, low wages and lack of institutional support as they feel that BU is unresponsive to their needs.
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.
Kamala Harris speaks at Pipefitter’s Local 537 in Dorchester on Thursday.

Kamala Harris visits Dorchester union workers, met by protestors calling for Gaza Strip cease-fire at campaign event downtown

Crystal Yormick November 9, 2023
Vice President Kamala Harris was in Boston on Thursday to meet with members of the registered apprenticeship program, a government-run career pathways program, ahead of next week’s national apprenticeship week, but was met by hundreds of protesters later in the afternoon.
The Pavement Coffeehouse in Brighton

Brighton Pavement Coffeehouse management accused of LGBTQ+ discrimination

Sydney Spottiswood April 13, 2023
Former workers of Brighton Pavement Coffeehouse have come forward with allegations of mistreatment and intimidation by management towards queer and transgender workers.
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.
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