Boston DSA Labor Working Group

The @Boston_DSA labor branch. Email [email protected] or get involved at We blog about local labor struggles with @WorkingMass

[Working Mass @dsaworkingmass]

“Workers are fed up with the hotels, and we’re on strike to make them pay.”

Read - @UNITEHERE26 Boston Hotel Workers Launch Second Wave of Strikes

https://t.co/wA8wURfbMn

[UNITE HERE Local 26 @UNITEHERE26]

Live from the picket line: As of this morning, hotel workers at 4 Boston properties are ON STRIKE! The economy doesn’t work for any of us. We’re gonna make the hotel companies PAY. @TheNewburyBostn, @WHotels Boston, Moxy Boston Downtown, & The Dagny.

[BU Grad Workers @gradworkersofBU]

RANK & FILE UPDATE FROM THE PICKET LINE:

striking BUGWU workers have been picketing all day every day outside essential BU buildings! solidarity to the truck drivers with deliveries & services who have refused to cross our picket line and joined us in our struggle!

[𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗦𝗔 🌹 @WorcDSA]

Join one of our chapter's September reading groups:

📰 "Union Fratricide" on the anticommunist push to kick UE out of GE in Massachusetts

📕 Chapter 4 of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩 by Frantz Fanon

Sign up for the location or Zoom:
https://t.co/0xczwRv92T

[John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson]

The MacKay campaign has submitted recount petitions for all wards!

#DeckerMacKay #cambma

[Working Mass @dsaworkingmass]

UPDATE: Cambridge Elections’ unofficial tally now shows incumbent Decker up by 41 votes. The AP hasn’t yet called the race.

The margin is just outside of the .5% threshold to allow a district-wide recount request.

The campaigns have until Friday to request a ward-level recount.

[keith bb @TRAILSANDWAYS]

first major GM battery plant in the South unionizes with the UAW, 1,000 workers. a potential union anchor for massive factories under construction for the emerging Southern battery belt

[Working Mass @dsaworkingmass]

BREAKING:

@EvanforCambridg declares victory in race for MA state house seat.

A Boston DSA member and former UAW local president, Evan unseated an incumbent by running on a platform of progressive politics and opposition to statehouse back room deals.

When we fight, we win!

[Joseph Guidry @astrojoeg]

🚨 #BUGWUonStrike‼️
@gradworkersofBU votes to continue our record-breaking strike into the Fall semester. 5+ months of striking has stretched workers thin. Any donation to our hardship fund is a major boost: https://t.co/5lrTfZqPfy

Rally tomorrow @ 12pm on Marsh Plaza!

[mtp @tsengputterman]

"Labor Day" reminder that the majority of the world celebrates International Workers' Day on May 1, chosen by an international socialist congress in 1889 to commemorate the Haymarket affair, in which Chicago workers striking for an 8-hour day were violently repressed by police.

[MA State House Employee Union @BeaconHillUnion]

Happy Labor Day!

Today is a day to remember the importance of striving towards a safe and supportive work environment.

However, legislative staff are still barred from collective bargaining — and that work environment— in MA despite the legislature’s pro-labor reputation.

[Evan MacKay @Evan4Cambridge]

Labor Day is a time to celebrate the dedicated efforts of workers everywhere in creating a more just world. It’s also a moment to recommit to the struggles ahead.

We have a long way to go to rebuild union density and to empower workers from the rank and file on up.

[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

Happy Labor Day (by @michael_deforge)

[Boston DSA Labor Working Group @BostonDSALabor]

Enough is enough @BU_Tweets. Get serious at the table and negotiate dignified CBAs with your workers.

Victory to the Res Life Union who launched an indefinite strike yesterday on move-in weekend and to BU Grad Workers Union on strike since March 25!

✊✊✊

[Boston University @BU_Tweets]

A group of approximately 50 members of BU’s Res Life Union walked off their jobs on Saturday amidst students moving into campus. Striking students are protesting the lack of a new contract for their union. The next negotiation session is scheduled for 9/5. https://t.co/KilPFfRVFv

[Boston DSA Labor Working Group @BostonDSALabor]

Inspired Tired

[Boston DSA Labor Working Group @BostonDSALabor]

.@EvanforCambridg front page Boston Globe this morning above the fold. The momentum is growing for the labor champion in the 25th Middlesex. Let’s bring it home brothers sisters and siblings!! We need you to sign up to knock doors TODAY🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

[Boston DSA Labor Working Group @BostonDSALabor]

.@EvanforCambridg front page Boston Globe this morning above the fold. The momentum is growing for the labor champion in the 25th Middlesex. Let’s bring it home brothers sisters and siblings!! We need you to sign up to knock doors TODAY🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

[Boston DSA Labor Working Group @BostonDSALabor]

Solidarity with striking hotel workers nationwide! SUPPORT THE STRIKE 👊

[Working Mass @dsaworkingmass]

BREAKING:

@UNITEHERE26 workers on strike at Fairmont Copley, Hilton Boston Park Plaza, Hilton Boston Logan, Hampton Inn/ Homewood Suites Seaport as of 5am this morning.

We are on site at Boston Park Plaza where over 400 workers have walked off in the hotel’s first strike ever.

[Working Mass @dsaworkingmass]

BREAKING:

@UNITEHERE26 workers on strike at Fairmont Copley, Hilton Boston Park Plaza, Hilton Boston Logan, Hampton Inn/ Homewood Suites Seaport as of 5am this morning.

We are on site at Boston Park Plaza where over 400 workers have walked off in the hotel’s first strike ever.