Feature Articles

  • March 23, 2020
    MassCOSH has Shifted to All-Remote Operations

    As of March 13, our offices in Dorchester and East Boston are closed to visitors. We are following the advice of public health experts to promote and support social distancing as this global pandemic affects billions of peoples’... read more
  • February 19, 2020
    Please Welcome Brenda

    MassCOSH is very pleased to announce that it has doubled the capacity of our Worker Center! After a brief period where the center was staffed solely by the capable hands Director Milagros Barreto, Brenda Quintana replaces former... read more
  • February 19, 2020
    Strategic Training: Reaching Workers Where They Are

    Twice a year, MassCOSH’s Trainer & Technical Consultant Rick Rabin reaches out to close to 40 English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) schools in the area, letting them know that MassCOSH will be offering free trainings... read more
  • February 19, 2020
    Teens on the T

    This month, two fast-food chains paid the price for violating child labor laws: Chipotle was hit with a $1.37 million fine for more than 13,000 child labor violations at its Massachusetts restaurants and Wendy’s was hit with $400,... read more
  • January 15, 2020
    New Faces at MassCOSH

    We are very pleased to introduce our newest MassCOSH Board members who will help lead MassCOSH into 2020 and beyond.

    Traci Teal joined our board this December at our Annual Meeting. Having tragically lost her father, Joseph... read more
  • January 15, 2020
    Hot Topic

    It will come as no surprise to fans of MassCOSH’s Teen’s Lead @ Work that our youth leaders are hard at work pushing policies that will help prepare school districts for the undeniable future of hotter temperatures from climate... read more
  • January 15, 2020
    Advocacy Pays Off

    Hundreds of thousands of workers can thank labor movement advocates for their pay increase this month when the state minimum wage increased from $12 to $12.75. In 2018, organizations that made up the Fight for 15 worker advocacy... read more
  • December 18, 2019
    COSHCON Honors MassCOSH Staff

    If we are doing our job right, when you hear about worker justice in Massachusetts, you think of MassCOSH. But what about beyond our state borders? MassCOSH is proud to be part of the National Council for Occupational Safety and... read more
  • December 18, 2019
    Dangerous Employer Finally Faces Jail Time

    December 5, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mitchell H. Kaplan sentenced Kevin Otto, owner of Atlantic Drain Services to two years in the House of Corrections after being found guilty of two counts of manslaughter for the trench... read more
  • December 18, 2019
    Talking Truth to Power

    On December 5, MassCOSH’s Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) took part in a Boston Public Schools Youth Community meeting with the City’s new Superintendent Brenda Cassellius. The meeting was organized by motivated and engaged students of... read more

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