Category: Education

Mass. AFL-CIO Educational & Political Conference

Local 589's endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate Ed Markey (center) with the Executive Board of the Boston Carmen's Union.

The Boston Carmen’s Union Local 589 Executive Board participated in the 3-day Massachusetts AFL-CIO Gompers-Murray-Meany Educational Conference held from May 22nd-24th. The annual conference provides workshops on current Labor issues, speakers such as State Treasurer Steve Grossman and Attorney General Martha Coakley with special guest speaker US Senate candidate Ed Markey. Markey took time to …

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2013 Scholarship Awards Banquet Dinner

2013 Scholarship Winners

Last Thursday, Mass. AFL-CIO President Steve Tolman joined the Boston Carmen’s Union’s Assistant Secretary, Peggy LaPaglia, and Shops + Carhouse Delegate, Michael Keller, for an awards banquet at IBEW Local 103 with the Local 589’s 2013 Scholarship Winners.  All winners were given $1,000.00 to put toward college.  Local 589’s Executive Board would like to offer our congratulations …

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Mass. Labor Leaders: Make Workplaces Safer

Poster for Workers Memorial Day

By Michael Norton | State House News Service | 4/26/2013 Pausing on Beacon Street in Boston to remember 32 Massachusetts workers killed on the job during 2012, including fishermen, drivers and painters, labor officials Thursday said penalties for negligent employers are inadequate and urged a tighter focus by policymakers on occupational dangers. According to a report released …

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