Massachusetts

More Than 4,000 Mass General Brigham Nurses To Strike On July 8

June 28, 2026 Beth Treffeisen, Portside. Resist! Health Care, Massachusetts, Nurses, Strikes, Worker Rights

Approximately 4,500 nurses and clinicians at two Mass General Brigham units will walk off the job on July 8 unless hospital executives reach new labor agreements, setting the stage for what the union says will be the largest nurses’ strike in Massachusetts history. The Massachusetts Nurses Association issued the required 10-day strike notice, saying workers are seeking contracts that include competitive wages, affordable health insurance, investments in the permanent nursing workforce, and stronger protections for patient care. The planned walkout includes more than 4,000 registered nurses at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and about 450 clinicians at Mass General Brigham Home Care.

Massachusetts: Parked EVs Will Start Feeding The Grid This Summer

June 22, 2026 Sarah Shemkus, Next City. Create! Electric Vehicles, Energy, Energy storage, Massachusetts

After the school year ends in the Massachusetts towns of Acton and Boxborough, the district’s electric buses will mostly stay put in a parking lot. But they won’t sit idle all summer. The three vehicles will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest and cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares, perhaps even enough to cover the costs of charging up during the school year, says Kate Crosby, energy manager for the Acton-Boxborough school district.

Uber And Lyft Drivers Went Union In Massachusetts

May 27, 2026 Harold Meyerson, Portside. Resist! Drivers, Lyft, Massachusetts, Uber, Unions

For years, both Uber and Lyft have insisted that their drivers are not their employees, but rather, independent contractors who therefore don’t qualify for minimum-wage and other such laws, and who cannot unionize under the terms of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Their hard-fought position—roughly speaking, if it quacks like a duck, that still doesn’t make it a duck—immunized them from the normal duties of an employer (providing benefits, adhering to minimum-wage laws, and the like). Until today.

On Nakba Day, A Call In Boston To ‘Boycott The US!’

May 19, 2026 Workers World Boston Bureau, Workers' World. Resist! Boston, FIFA, Israel, Massachusetts, Nakba Day, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, world cup

We are here to honor the martyrs of al-Nakba — the Catastrophe — that began 78 years ago and to raise a fist in absolute solidarity with the ongoing Palestinian Resistance! We are also here to honor and support Palestine’s allies in the global struggle — the people of Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Cuba, Venezuela, the Sahel — all the countries and peoples resisting the decades of terror-bombing, deadly sanctions and starvation inflicted by the Zionist and U.S. regimes. So what can we do here, in the heart of the U.S. empire, in the belly of the beast, which is responsible for the global carnage?

How Somerville Organized To Win Ballot Question To Divest From Israel

December 2, 2025 Tamar Sarai, Next City. Strategize! BDS Movement, Direct Democracy, Divestment, Massachusetts, Palestine

Organizers with Somerville for Palestine hosted a rally outside of City Hall on Nov. 13, demanding that city councilmembers follow the will of voters and pass a resolution to implement a strategy to boycott and divest from Israel within the next calendar year. The rally came after voters in the Massachusetts city’s Nov. 4 election overwhelmingly supported nonbinding Ballot Question 3, also referred to as the “Palestine Solidarity Question,” which asked whether Somerville should divest from companies that “engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide and illegal occupation of Palestine.”

Do Millionaire Surtaxes Lead To Millionaire Exodus?

December 1, 2025 Richard Solomon, People's Policy Project. Create! Massachusetts, Millionaires, Public Programs, Wealth Tax

November 2025 marks the three-year anniversary of Massachusetts voters approving a four percent surtax on annual incomes above $1 million.[1] The ‘Fair Share’ amendment has been a reference for New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who has called for an additional 2% tax on city incomes over $1 million to fund his affordability agenda. Predictably, critics make gloomy prophecies of economic blight and elite exodus: Bill Ackman and 26 other billionaires spent big on Mamdani’s opponents, the Cato Institute called his tax plans ‘wishful thinking,” and Andrew Cuomo threatened to depart for Florida.

Somerville For Palestine Initiative Is On November Ballot

October 21, 2025 Phebe Eckfeldt, Workers' World. Organize! Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), Direct Democracy, Israel, Massachusetts, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Somerville

Somerville, Massachusetts - “Disclose! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!” This chant rang out loud and clear at the Somerville for Palestine (S4P) meeting in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Oct. 6, when members and friends learned that 8,000 of their 11,400 petition signatures were legally certified by the Election Commission. The Commission also overruled an objection by the right wing to the ballot initiative. It will be on the ballot in November as Question 3. For the past seven months, 288 volunteers have been canvassing people to sign a petition directing the Somerville City Council to stop using taxpayers’ money to fund Israeli genocide.

River Valley Co-Op Workers Opened Up Bargaining And Won Big

October 3, 2025 Katrina Jagelski, Labor Notes. Strategize! Collective bargaining, Cooperatives, Massachusetts, Unions, Victory, Worker Rights and Jobs

River Valley Co-op is a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store with two locations in Western Massachusetts. We have been unionized with Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1459 for the last decade with 175 workers in our bargaining unit. This year, beginning in January and ending in June, we held thirteen bargaining sessions with RVC management and their attorneys in a process that was transformative for our union. Negotiations were tense and at times, adversarial. Workers took a stand in ways they never had before, strengthening our relationships and faith in our ability to fight and win. We made significant strides in the contract, including $2 an hour raises across the board, union orientation for new hires, and protections for our immigrant co-workers. Our contract was ratified with 77 percent of workers turning out for a nearly unanimous ‘yes’ vote.

This Job Is Trash But Everyone Loves It

August 21, 2025 Cottage and Company, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Cooperative, Massachusetts, Sanitation Workers, Zero Emissions

They ride like the pro cyclists you see on TV, logging long hard miles, day in and out, but you won’t see them at the Tour De France. Instead, they tow 8-foot trailers stacked with over 300 pounds of trash through the streets, 365 days a year. Will Malcolm is a professional cyclist at Pedal People, a bike-powered garbage collection business combining human power, zero-emissions transportation, and a worker-owned cooperative model, making it one of the most unconventional jobs in America. This is the story of how Pedal People is changing the way we think about waste management, cycling careers, sustainability, and what it means to take out the trash.

High School Student Detained By ICE Released From Inhumane Conditions

June 8, 2025 Emma Lee, Left Voice. Resist! Detention, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Massachusetts

The high school student in Massachusetts who was arrested and kidnapped by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) on his way to volleyball practice was released after six days of detention on Thursday after a judge granted him bond. Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, who came to the U.S. from Brazil at the age of 7, was detained by ICE last Saturday. The agents were looking for Marcelo’s father, who owns the car that his son was driving. He had parked in a friend’s driveway and was headed to practice when ICE agents pulled him over, arrested, and detained him. The student did not even know about his own immigration status because he was so young when he arrived in the United States.

Zionist Militants Responsible For ICE Arrest Of Pro-Palestine Student

May 14, 2025 Robert Inlakesh, MintPress News. Resist! Free Speech, ICE, Israel, Massachusetts, Palestine, Repression, Zionists

A Massachusetts court ruled that the detention of a former student who expressed pro-Palestine views was unconstitutional and that it was a punitive measure triggered almost solely by a complaint from the Zionist militant group Betar. Late last week, a judge ruled that a former student at the University of Massachusetts (UMass), detained unlawfully by ICE, be released, providing the first court admission that Zionist extremist groups are working with U.S. authorities to violate free speech rights. The former student in question is Efe Ercelik, a Turkish national who entered the U.S. on an F-1 student visa. After a physical altercation with a Jewish student during a protest in late 2023, the American corporate media and pro-Israel groups pointed to his case as evidence of rampant attacks against Jewish students on campus.

I Faced Censorship And Attacks For Trying To Teach About Palestine

April 25, 2025 Michel DeGraff, Mondoweiss. Educate! Censorship, Education, Fascism, Massachusetts, MIT, Palestine, Repression

At MIT, I have witnessed firsthand how institutional priorities shift under the weight of political pressures and personal allegiances. My proposal for a course that critically engages via language and linguistics with the realities of settler colonialism vs. decolonization was not simply met with skepticism; it was censored and actively surveilled, doxed, and it is still being delegitimized. My experience is not an isolated incident, but part of a larger, systemic issue that permeates education across the United States. It is a symptom of what I have come to understand as the “Palestine exception,” where conversations surrounding Israel/Palestine are subjected to unique levels of scrutiny and suppression, from academic units, to students’ newspapers and faculty newsletters, to Executive Orders and Homeland Security.

Student Activists Pass Municipal Resolution To Make Polluters Pay

April 25, 2025 Sunrise Smith, Popular Resistance. Create! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Massachusetts, pollution, Student Activism

Northampton, MA. – Sunrise Movement activists at Smith College and local advocates passed a Climate Superfund Resolution in Northampton last Thursday. On Earth Day dozens rally in Amherst, calling on the Amherst Town Council and other municipalities in the Connecticut River Valley to join the call to make polluters pay. Thursday’s resolution in support of H.1014/S.588, “An Act to Establish a Climate Change Superfund”, was the first to pass in Western Massachusetts, following previous resolutions in Boston, Cambridge, Medford, and Malden. “I’ve watched my generation strike, resist, campaign, lose hope, and get back up again,” said Emma Coopersmith.

Massachusetts Organizers Fight For A Sanctuary State

February 14, 2025 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! ICE, Immigrants, Massachusetts, Sanctuary

Grassroots organizers in Massachusetts are demanding that their state stand with immigrant communities in declaring Massachusetts a sanctuary state—ensuring that state officials will not collaborate with Trump’s policy of mass immigrant detentions and deportations. Spearheaded by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the campaign outlines a set of four demands of the Massachusetts state government: ending law enforcement collaboration with ICE, stopping racist demonization against immigrants, stopping any new restrictions on housing assistance, and keeping ICE out of the state’s public schools and other institutions.

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