FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2023 Contact: Jame Jones, Communications Coordinator (857) 301-7730 jame.jones@masscosh.org Construction Worker Dies Trapped Under Loader in Trench The death of Roger Porter at a construction incident at Brockton Hospital is a tragic reminder of how dangerous the construction industry can be and…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/12/2023 Contact: Brenda Quintana, MassCOSH Organizer brenda.q@masscosh.org (857) 301-7763 Trulieve Leaving Massachusetts Amid Pushback for Occupational Health Hazards BOSTON Recently, Trulieve announced that it plans to cease its cannabis operations in all of its Massachusetts facilities by the end of 2023, which…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5/4/2023 Contact: Jame Jones, Communications Coordinator (857) 301-7730 Explosion in Newburyport Sends Four Workers to the Hospital, One Worker Still Missing BOSTON The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) anxiously awaits news of a worker who’s gone missing during an explosion at…
Fatal injury and illness continue to impact Massachusetts workers
Fatal injury and illness continue to impact Massachusetts workers
The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to ensure that all workers are treated with respect and dignity, earn a fair wage and return home to their families alive and well. We educate and mobilize workers, unions, and community activists to…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/17/2023 Contact: Jame Jones, MassCOSH Communications Coordinator Jame.jones@masscosh.org (857) 301-7730 Pizza Chain Owner Facing Charges Of Forced Labor BOSTON The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) is reeling from the news about Stavros “Steve” Papantoniadis, owner…
As of October 15, 2022, Al Vega, long time member of the MassCOSH team, will become its first-ever Chief of Strategy and Engagement. The new role is part of a re-structuring plan as outgoing Executive Director Jodi Sugerman-Brozan will be joining the City of Boston and Mayor Michelle Wu’s new Cabinet for Worker Empowerment as Deputy Chief, with a focus on worker protections. MassCOSH will also be hiring a Chief of Operations to join Al as part of a new leadership team.
On August 17, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration granted Massachusetts initial approval to enable Massachusetts’s safety and health plan to be responsible for protecting state and local government workers with safety standards that meet or exceed OSHA standards for private sector workers. The Massachusetts State…
One of MassCOSH’s historic victories is about to hit an exciting benchmark. In 2019, after over a decade of advocacy, MassCOSH and our allies secured the expanded OSHA protections to approximately 430,000 Massachusetts State and Municipal workers when the Act to Further Define Standards of Employee Safety went into effect.
MassCOSH is pleased to welcome our new intern, Josi Gomes Timas. Josi comes to us from the esteemed Labor Studies program at UMass Boston and works with MassCOSH Tuesdays and Thursdays, assisting our Teens Lead @ Work program and our Worker Center. Under a decade ago, Josi moved to the…
It’s crazy to believe that MassCOSH’s first ever TL@W participants could now have children old enough to join the program themselves, a true testament to the longevity of a program that has reached thousands of young people with the message their health and safety on the job matters. On July…