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…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/15/2022 Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org (857) 301-7730 Action by OSHA to Confront Trench Fatalities Is “Vital for Bay State workers,” says Mass. Workers’ Safety Organization Boston Yesterday’s announcement by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of…
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…
Press Release November 8, 2021 For Immediate Distribution Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org (857) 301-7730 …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/21/2021 Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org As Delta COVID Cases Rise, Gov Baker Doubles Down on Abandoning Workers Issuing blank emergency COVID regulations and failing to protect public workers as required by law…
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/28/21 Contact: Jodi Sugerman-Brozan Jodi@masscosh.org 617-733-8482 New Report Documents Loss of Workers Lives on the Job in 2019 and 2020 Links for the first time working outside the home to a dramatic risk of death due to COVID-19 On December 10, 2019, Vidal Bravo Cifuentes, a 34-year-old day laborer,…
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2/3/2021 Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org (email preferred) (315) 546 6391 MassCOSH, National COSH, 100+ Worker Groups Release 2021 “Agenda for Worker Safety and Health” OSHA a catastrophic failure…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 7/16/2020 Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org (315) 546 6391 Worker Advocacy Group Announces Support of Comprehensive COVID-19 Surge Protection Legislation Says bill is the first they have seen that would make dramatic strides…
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 6/3/2020 Contact: Jeff Newton, MassCOSH Communications Director Jeff.newton@masscosh.org (315) 546 6391 MassCOSH States Workers are not Expendable Commodities Issues Reopening Massachusetts Phase 2 Demands BOSTON On May 18, the Massachusetts Coalition for…
Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/8/2020 Contact: Jodi Sugerman-Brozan, Executive Director (617) 733-8482 Mass. Occ. Safety and Health Group Releases Badly Needed Resource for Workers Still Reporting to Work The organization created…
Media Release March 10, 2020 For More Information: Jeff Newton, 617-825-7233 x14 jeff.newton@masscosh.org Workers’ rights advocates call on lawmakers to close workers’ compensation loopholes that allow employers to threaten and retaliate against injured workers …
Workplace Safety Advocates Hope Employer Prison Sentence Deters Others from Putting Workers in Danger BOSTON Today, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mitchell H. Kaplan sentenced Kevin Otto, owner of Atlantic Drain Services to sentenced to two years in the House of Corrections after being found guilty of…