On March 12, MassCOSH Labor-Community Training Coordinator Jazmin Morinigo joined with partners at the Boston Educational Justice Alliance and the Boston Public Schools Families for COVID Safety (FamCoSa) to provide a workshop at the Boston Teachers Union (BTU) annual Family2Family Conference. The conference’s theme was United in Healing and Hope…
With COVID-19 rates on the decline, MassCOSH is happy to announce two upcoming in-person events (subject to change should COVID-19 rates require we change plans to keep everyone safe). First, MassCOSH will resume its powerful observation of International Workers’ Memorial Day on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on…
Just over two decades since its founding, this past February, our Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) peer leaders met with a very important person who played a powerful role in the direction of our young worker program, Taciana Ribeiro Saab. Taciana’s son, Cristian Ribeiro Giambrone, was 18 years old…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3/15/2022 Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org (857) 301-7730 Workers’ rights organization skewers Governor Baker for early end to the COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Time Program Says program is still needed and workers that needed it most did not…
On January 25, MassCOSH held an important town hall to help workers best understand the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Massachusetts sick leave law, and what they can do to keep themselves safe on the job as COVID-19 cases surged. The event’s recordings, presentations, and other information has been…
January marked the end of the longest nurses strike in our state’s long history. After 301 days of picketing for safer patient care, St. Vincent Hospital nurses voted to ratify a new contract and clears the path for the hospital to begin recalling nurses to provide care to patients and…
Although TL@W is currently running virtual programming, in December, before the Omicron spike, our peer leaders held their first, in-person training since 2020. The training was for the young workers who make up the Somerville-based Liaison Interpreter Program of Somerville (LIPS). Part of The Welcome Project, LIPS provides a…
In January, the Boston Public Health Commission provided MassCOSH 180 at-home rapid tests to distribute to frontline workers to keep themselves and their families safe. On January 20, MassCOSH’s Worker Center staff and members helped distribute kits to working immigrant families that included the tests, N-95 masks, face shields, fact…
The following fact sheets have been created in January 2021 by experts and community leaders to educate you about what to do if you are exposed to or get COVID-19 and important workplace safety measures employers should implement to keep workers safe. They are available in English and Spanish. Omicron…
The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) is deeply saddened to learn that Kimberlee Francoeur, 30, of Lanesborough, died of injuries sustained on the job working for Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock, Tuesday, January 5. According to media reports, Francoeur was working on a snowmobile as a snowmaker…
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MassCOSH’s 2021 Annual Report is hosted on MediaFire. Please click this link to view: https://www.mediafire.com/file/6mh1wsodfxw61dj/AnnualReport_2021_HD.pdf/file