Jonatham Kamens reports that he and other employees at the US Digital Service got word from their new Musk overlords last night they have been fired. Read more.
By adamg - 2/14/25 - 6:09 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports that John Snow, Inc., which runs public-health programs in both the US and around the world, has laid off roughly 1,100 employees because the Musk administration has ended USAID funding.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 11:41 pm
Unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers yesterday asked a federal judge in Boston to order Co-President Musk to stop pretending his "fork in the road" directive telling federal employees to quit now is anything but a blatant violation of federal law. Read more.
By adamg - 2/4/25 - 1:09 pm
Educational expert and former Boston School Committee member Mary Tamer yesterday sued a collection of New York-based educational-reform groups, charging they fired her in September as their Massachusetts coordinator - in the middle of the battle over an MCAS ballot question - not because she wasn't doing her job well but because their CEO, former Providence mayor Jorge Elorza, has strong disdain for women, particularly older ones. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/25 - 9:05 pm
A federal appeals court today upheld a lower-court judge's decision to toss a suit by a cardiac ICU nurse who claimed the way Boston Medical Center fired her in 2021 rather than let her keep working, unvaccinated, with the sort of intensely sick patients who would wind up in an ICU. Read more.
By adamg - 1/27/25 - 3:19 pm
A school psychologist for Newton Public Schools today sued over her 2022 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots, saying she had a legitimate religious reason to avoid the shots: Her Greek Orthodox church is against the use of substances derived from aborted babies, which she claims Covid-19 vaccines are from. Read more.
By adamg - 1/22/25 - 4:36 pm
A federal judge ruled today that Boston Medical Center had no way to safely accommodate a neonatal intensive care nurse's profession of faith against both Covid-19 shots and face masks and so had the right to fire her for refusing to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - 1/19/25 - 12:08 pm
A cameraman for WCVB's "Chronicle" show may have had legitimate religious reasons to reject Covid-19 vaccinations, but the cost of providing separate accommodations for him to keep working meant the station had the right to fire him, because employers have the right to listen to federal public-health officials offering "objective medical evidence" in a pandemic and they didn't have to wait for a court to conclude vaccines were reducing the spread of the disease, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/24 - 8:59 pm
A Boston Public Schools janitor with a grudge against two other custodians beat them and a school security officer so badly at the Mildred Avenue K-8 school in Mattapan in October that they all suffered broken bones, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 11/27/24 - 2:48 pm
Boston College is fighting back against a worker who's suing it for disregarding what he claims is his religious right to not get a Covid-19 shot in a way that other organizations facing similar suits cannot: It argues it has its own religious rights under the First Amendment to require workers to get vaccinated. Read more.
By adamg - 11/15/24 - 10:25 pm
A federal appeals court today agreed with a lower-court judge that the manager of the Coolidge Corner Trader Joe's had a legitimate reason to fire a 77-year-old worker, because she had been caught buying beer for her 19-year-old grandson, who also worked at the store at the time. Read more.
By adamg - 11/13/24 - 12:51 pm
A federal judge ruled yesterday that a fired landscaper at Boston College can continue his case that his 2021 firing for refusing Covid-19 shots violated his religious rights under the First Amendment. Read more.
By adamg - 10/29/24 - 10:42 pm
UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that it has reached a tentative deal with the owner of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Hilton Boston Park Plaza and has suspended its picketing outside the two hotels.
If workers vote to ratify the deal, they will return to work at 4 a.m. on Friday, the union says, adding the deal also applies to workers at the DoubleTree Hilton Boston-Cambridge and the Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites Boston Seaport, who walked off the job for three days last month.
By adamg - 10/28/24 - 11:57 am
An annoyed resident filed a 311 complaint at 7:52 a.m. about the striking Park Plaza workers, who now strike up the band, um, buckets and loudspeakers, starting at 7 a.m.: Read more.
By adamg - 10/23/24 - 1:42 pm
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to continue support of UNITE HERE Local 26, currently on strike against the Park Plaza and Airport Hilton after reaching a deal with the Omni Parker House and Boston Seaport hotels. Councilors urged Boston residents to stay away from events at the Park Plaza and Airport hotels.
By adamg - 10/20/24 - 7:08 pm
UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that unionized workers at the Omni Parker House and Omni Boston Seaport hotels today ratified new contracts and voted to return to work tomorrow. Read more.
By adamg - 10/9/24 - 11:31 am
A doctor who spent 29 years in the emergency room at Tufts Medical Center yesterday sued the hospital for at least $6 million for rejecting her request for a religious exemption from Covid-19 shots in 2021 because she believes the vaccines were derived from aborted fetuses and that goes against her Christian beliefs. Read more.
By adamg - 10/1/24 - 9:47 am
WBZ reports on the impact on both businesses that get and ship their goods by sea and on the local workforce:
There are only 160 dockworkers in Boston, but the strike is expected to affect about 12,000 jobs in the area, including tugboat and truck drivers and delivery workers.
By adamg - 9/27/24 - 11:25 am
A New Jersey man who quit a job with Boston-based DraftKings to move to Los Angeles for a job with one of its online-betting archrivals, only to get sued by his former employers under the Massachusetts non-compete law, will have to make his case under Massachusetts law rather than California law, a federal court ruled yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/31/24 - 11:08 am
Miles Grant notes the odd exclusion in a Globe list of "10 movies about work to stream this Labor Day weekend" - they have "Monsters, Inc.," but not anything like, oh, "Norma Rae" or "On the Waterfront." Fortunately, people of a more labor-ish bent on Labor Day have Deadline's list of "15 Movies About Labor Unions And Strikes."
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