May 29 2015
State House News Service | By Andy Metzger |Thursday, May 28 If Gov. Charlie Baker succeeds in a key aspect of his MBTA reform plan he will have uprooted a unique aspect of transit workers collective bargaining rights that harks back more than a century. Unlike other public employee unions, when MBTA workers reach an …
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May 28 2015
Boston Globe | By David Scharfenberg | May 27, 2015 The MBTA’s largest employee union is vowing to sue the state, or petition the federal government to cut off millions of dollars in aid for the agency, if state lawmakers approve a key provision of Governor Charlie Baker’s T overhaul plan. Union officials argue the …
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Jul 10 2014
Huffington Post | Robert Creamer | 07/09/2014 The ability for ordinary working people to organize and collectively bargain over their wages and working conditions is a fundamental human right. It is a right just as critical to a democratic society as the right to free speech and the right to vote. Over the last 30 years …
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