Francisca Sepulveda, director of the MassCOSH Worker Center, said recognizing the lingering and ongoing costs from the pandemic is crucial. It’s one of the reasons why she said the coalition has signed on to support the proposed remembrance day.
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HANCOCK — Fatal accidents among professional snowmakers like the one that claimed the life of a woman at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort earlier this week are rare, but industry experts say the job comes with a lot of risks. Kimber Francoeur, 30, died Tuesday when the snowmobile she was operating collided with a…
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The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) is a nonprofit organization that builds the power of workers – both youth and adults – to lead efforts that achieve safe, healthy working conditions. MassCOSH is seeking a Youth Programs Director for its youth-led Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) youth leadership and…
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By Anastasia E. Lennon / The Patriot Ledger Posted May 29, 2020 at 1:23 PMUpdated May 30, 2020 at 2:14 PM Employer is not sanitizing workspace. Temporary employees are being transported to workplace in crowded vans. Store is not enforcing social distancing. Residents with fevers are not being tested. Paramedics are not being provided with protective equipment. Variations…
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'We're Not Just Essential Workers, We're Human Beings': Advocates Want Slowdown Of Mass. Reopening May 25, 2020 By Simón Rios This Memorial Day, those who have died of COVID-19 are also being remembered. Lewis Elisa of the Boston Black COVID-19 coalition speaks in front of the State House during…
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Task force: Reopening plans don’t offer enough help for people disproportionately affected by crisis Among the conditions it wants met is a drop in the infection rates among minority groups.By Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent,Updated June 4, 2020, 10:19 a.m. 6 [Alice Gaskins holds a sign in front of the Massachusetts…
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The opioid abuse epidemic is one of the worst public-health crises in American history. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 1999 and 2017, almost 400,000 people died in the U.S. from an overdose of either prescription or illicit opioids. In 2017 alone, opioids, more…
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Massachusetts contractors faced $2.7M in wage theft penalties in 2018 AUTHOR Kim Slowey @kimslowey PUBLISHED Feb. 28, 2019 Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced Wednesday that her office cited 66 construction companies with wage theft violations in 2018 and levied $2.7 million in total penalties,…
Industry Dive
By Katie Johnston Globe Staff November 27, 2017 One woman’s supervisor told her he’d give her credit for working a shift at a Charlestown bread company if she went home with him instead. When she resisted his advances, he cut her hours, according to a…
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Boston Globe OP ED City, state let contractor slip through cracks JOHN TLUMACKI/BOSTON GLOBE FILE PHOTO Two workers from Atlantic Drain died at this Dartmouth Street work site after the trench filled with water. October 28, 2016 The way two construction workers died last week in the…
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By Beth Healy and Megan Woolhouse GLOBE STAFF SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 Luis Mayancela was 15 years old when he fell from the roof of a house in Portland, Maine, where he was helping fasten shingles. He tumbled two stories, severely breaking his leg. His employer did not…
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Workers’ comp agency urged to speed handling of claims By Beth Healy GLOBE STAFF SEPTEMBER 21, 2016 Two dozen immigrant workers and their advocates packed into a small downtown hearing room Wednesday to urge a state agency to speed the handling of workers’ compensation claims and press employers to meet their obligations.
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