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By adamg - 8/8/24 - 10:48 pm

Some 4,500 workers at 35 Boston hotels voted overwhelmingly this week to authorize a strike, according to their union, Unite Here Local 26. Read more

By adamg - 7/25/24 - 10:54 am

Kathleen Stone, who says she was forced to resign as women's hockey coach at Harvard last year, this week sued Harvard and former players and parents over her ouster, alleging they made up crap about her in interviews with a Globe reporter, that she was being punished for behavior that male coaches at the school are allowed to get away with and that she was long paid far less than her male counterparts, despite being the winningest college women's hockey coach - and a one-time coach of the US Olympic hockey team. Read more.

By adamg - 6/10/24 - 4:01 pm

A firefighter on Tower Ladder 10 at the 746 Centre St. firehouse in Jamaica Plain today sued the city and Fire Commissioner Paul Burke for the four-day suspension he says he got after the department had done nothing about the poor condition of the sidewalk and driveway outside the station and he wrote directly to the city's chief of streets. Read more.

By adamg - 6/7/24 - 12:39 pm

Large fans that were delivered to public areas of the BPL's main library in Copley Square this morning are too little too late for workers - especially those in back offices who didn't get any fans - who have been falling faint and developing nausea over more than a week without air conditioning, the unions that represent them say. Read more.

By adamg - 6/1/24 - 2:57 pm
Redcap Charlie Hughes of Roxbury sits dejectedly at South Station

The caption for this photo from the May 24, 1946 Boston Traveler reads: Read more.

By adamg - 4/19/24 - 11:57 am

The Heights provides a rundown of the legal wrangling involving a suit by some employees over the college's alleged mishandling of retirement funds. US District Court Judge William Young rejected BC's request for him to simply throw the case out, calling its strident efforts to block a trial "a monumental waste of time."

By adamg - 3/25/24 - 9:50 am

The Daily Free Press reports that the BU Graduate Workers Union, affiliated with the SEIU, will start their strike today with a rally at Marsh Plaza on Commonwealth Avenue following unsuccessful negotiations over wage increases, better working conditions and funding for childcare for grad students with young children.

By adamg - 2/27/24 - 9:37 am

WFXT reports the new BTD regulations along Walter and Bussey streets, aimed at making spaces available for Arnold Arboretum visitors, are causing problems for workers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and Faulkner Hospital.

By adamg - 1/31/24 - 10:56 pm

Word just went out. The Newton Beacon reports that with the teacher strike about to enter its tenth school day, some Garden City non-profits and businesses are offering programming for students.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 9:55 pm

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Christopher Barry-Smith today ordered the striking Newton Teachers Association to pay $25,000 for not returning to work today after declaring the union in civil contempt for disobeying his order to return to work today and calling for increasingly steeper fines over the next few days: Read more.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 4:06 pm

Muerl reports the Teamsters sent a semi loaded with speakers drive around Newton school headquarters today blasting "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister.

By adamg - 1/22/24 - 3:25 pm

A long-time nurse at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says she got the first of two required Covid-19 shots under pressure from hospital administrators - and with God's OK - then fell seriously ill, refused the second shot and was fired. Read more.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 9:25 pm

Newton teachers are defying a court order and remaining off the job tomorrow after weekend bargaining sessions failed to produce an agreement.

By adamg - 1/19/24 - 10:06 pm

Fig City News posts a copy of the preliminary injunction a judge in Middlesex Superior Court issued today ordering teachers to return to the classroom on Monday, telling their union to publicly declare the walkout over by 3 p.m. on Sunday and mandating that both the union and school officials get back to the bargaining table for some "good faith" negotiating.

Judge Christopher Barry-Smith did not set down the amount of any fines should the teachers not show up at school on Monday.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 7:05 pm

So no school on Friday. The Newton Beacon has more. Also see Fig City News coverage.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 11:09 am

A federal judge yesterday dismissed a lawsuit by a nurse at Boston Medical Center over the way the hospital fired her after rejecting her request for a religious exemption to its requirement that all employees get vaccinated against Covid-19, saying her suit failed to provide very specific details on just what religious doctrines would have been violated by the shots. Read more.

By adamg - 1/15/24 - 9:48 am
Chowdah Hill

The commander of the USS Eisenhower, currently in the Red Sea launching attacks on Houthis, is Capt. Chris "Chowdah" Hill.

Chowdah Hill is from Quincy and went to Tufts. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/23 - 12:37 pm

A federal judge yesterday dismissed most of a lawsuit by a Milton Hospital office manager who was fired when she refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Read more.

By adamg - 9/5/23 - 12:00 pm
Kang Lu

Update: Lawsuit dismissed.

A now former radiologist who currently lists a Brookline address last week sued the state in federal court seeking a ruling that the Second Amendment gives him the absolute right to own guns and that Massachusetts can just stuff its gun-registration laws. Read more.

By adamg - 9/4/23 - 8:30 pm

The Dorchester Reporter reports the deal was announced at this morning's Greater Boston Labor Council’s Labor Day breakfast - and that it was reached, as only a Boston labor deal could be, around 10 p.m. on Sunday in the back room of the Brendan Behan Pub in Hyde Square.

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