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Worcester Medical Residents Persevere Through Fifth Month of Negotiations with UMass  - Working Mass By: James Niedzinski WORCESTER, MA — About 700 medical residents, represented by CIR-SEIU, are in their fifth month of negotiations with UMass Memorial Healthcare. Residents are working physicians — o...

Worcester medical residents fight for reinstated contributions to workers’ medical plan, a meaningful increase in pay that reflects the rapidly climbing cost of living in Worcester, and a housing stipend.

UMass has been refusing for 5 months.

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Somerville 4 Palestine Defeats Challenge, Divestment Moves to Ballot - Working Mass SOMERVILLE, MA – On October 6, 2025, the Somerville Elections Commission issued a final decision to overrule an objection to a divestment ballot initiative led by Somerville 4 Palestine, paving the wa...

BREAKING: Organizers defeat an attempt to challenge a ballot initiative to divest Somerville investments from genocide that has earned more than 11,000 signatures from residents. Somerville voters will vote on city divestment in November.

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Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later - Working Mass By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks have been tumultuous for the workers at the Starbucks store in the Davis Square neighborhood. On Wednesday, September 17, workers voted to join S...

On Wednesday, Sept 17, Davis Square workers voted to join Starbucks Workers United. One week later, on Thursday the 25th, Starbucks announced the imminent closure of hundreds of stores nationwide. By the 27th, the store had permanently closed.

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On for Young and Old: How Boston University’s Resident Assistants Pulled Off a Double Strike - Working Mass By: Stacey Yuen and Alana Edwards, with contributions from Thomas Baker This article was originally published in Long-Haul Magazine in its Winter 2025 Issue. In Fall 2024, Boston University’s Resident...

Worker reflections on BU ResLife's 2024 double strike, targeting strategic moments of the calendar through mass participation, cross-neighborhood stewards, and coworker conversations as BUGWU's strike raged on campus.

Originally from @long-haul-mag.bsky.social

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Step By Step, We Built a Movement to Transform Our Local Government - Working Mass By: Zac Bears and Jessica Farrell This article was originally published in Convergence Magazine in 2024. MEDFORD, MA – For decades, residents in Medford, Mass have voted many of the same people into o...

"While the idea of the platform and slate began with the Richmond Progressive Alliance model, we have greatly expanded it over the past six years. Each election cycle, we conduct extensive community outreach [to draft] the Medford People’s Platform (MPP)."
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Sheba Out of MA: Taxpayers Call for No Israeli AI in MA Healthcare - Working Mass By: Travis Wayne BEACON HILL, MA – On the morning of September 9, 2025, organizers from an anti-Zionist coalition of Massachusetts residents arrived at the Massachusetts State House to rally with supp...

Taxpayers Call for No Israeli AI in MA Healthcare:

"Sheba ARC is poised upon its 2026 launch to alter the management of both patients and workers, making both more heavily integrated and reliant on AI technology from the State of Israel."

Breaking now: working-mass.com/2025/09/09/s...

Deep Organizing at Scale: How Solidarity Tech Helped Power Zohran Mamdani’s Volunteer Wave - Working Mass By: Freddy Oswald From Viral Attention to Volunteer Action Perhaps the most distinct feature of Zohran Mamdani’s primary campaign was his ‘man on the street’ videos. Talking directly to the camera, of...

"Behind [Zohran's campaign was also] a piece of infrastructure that translated viral attention into material turnout: Solidarity Tech, a CRM designed by organizers for organizers and rooted in the organizing methods of the labor movement."

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Labor Day 2025: From Lawrence's Bread and Roses Festival to Boston's Historic First Labor Day Parade - Working Mass By: Andrew S LAWRENCE, MA– Unionists and socialists gathered together at the Heritage State Park for the 41st Annual Bread and Roses Heritage Festival on September 1 – Labor Day. And as organizers fro...

Labor Day 2025 hummed with energy across Greater Boston, from the 41st Bread and Roses Festival on the hallowed ground of Lawrence to Boston's historic first Labor Day Parade: "Workers Over Billionaires"

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Inside UMass Lowell: How to Create a University Pipeline to War Profiteering - Working Mass By: Nate Foster LOWELL, MA – UMass Lowell (UML) has always had deep ties to American industry. Located in a city that was founded to manufacture textiles during the Industrial Revolution, the universi...

"Now, UML uses debt to turn students into engineers that leave Lowell to find employment in tech hubs far from Lowell. . . where designing the most destructive technologies in human history is another 9 to 5."

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OPINION: 2025 DSA Convention - Build the Branch, Build the Party - Working Mass By: Travis Wayne The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Build the branch to build the party. “The party” has as many defin...

Finally, an author explores how to localize "Principles of Party-Building" passed by @demsocialists.bsky.social through connecting the party to organic struggle with base-level bridging organizations.

Available now: "Build the Branch, Build the Party"

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OPINION: 2025 DSA Convention - Socialists Set Sights On May Day 2028 and Left-Labor Power - Working Mass By: Chris Brady The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Around 1500 DSA members gathered in Chicago for the bi-annual natio...

Another author breaks down @demsocialists.bsky.social's nternal political forces and makeup in 2025 based on what happened during Convention proceedings -

Available now: "Winners, Losers, Bread and Roses"

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OPINION: 2025 DSA Convention - Socialists Set Sights On May Day 2028 and Left-Labor Power - Working Mass By: Chris Brady The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Around 1500 DSA members gathered in Chicago for the bi-annual natio...

One author unpacks the labor resolutions debated by
@demsocialists.bsky.social ts Convention in "Socialists Set Sight on May Day 2028 and Left-Labor Power" -

Available now: working-mass.com/2025/08/22/o...

Today, we're publishing opinion pieces from three members reflecting on three different aspects of
@demsocialists.bsky.social 2025 Convention 🧵

AI in Court: Politico Workers Take the Boss to Court Over Forced Automation - Working Mass By: Frederick Reiber SOMERVILLE, MA – From Hollywood writers to Boston dockworkers, labor unions are continuing to fight unethical usage of artificial intelligence.  Now, journalists are joining the f...

AI in Court: Politico Workers Take the Boss to Court Over Forced Automation!

"The fight over AI isn’t about resisting technology for its own sake—it’s about resisting who controls it, who benefits, and who bears the cost."

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Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord With Rally in Arlington - Working Mass By: Travis Wayne  ARLINGTON, MA – On Saturday, August 2, 2025, the Hamilton Tenants Association made a bold move: rallying directly and publicly against their landlord right outside their home.  It wa...

OUT NOW: Hamilton Tenants Association Faces Terrible Landlord with Rally in Arlington

"Tenants sent letters and raised demands. At every turn, Hamilton Company provided as much silence as when repairs were needed or rent was due."

Read into the fight: working-mass.com/2025/08/19/h...

Image says Palestine Papers

OUT NOW: The Palestine Papers, fourth edition.

Regardless of whether you're a seasoned or new organizer, this is for you. The Palestine Papers seek to spotlight, reinforce, and grow the contributions of Massachusetts in the fight.

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Rhode Island’s Longest Healthcare Strike - Working Mass Butler Workers Lead a Historic Fight for Mental Health and Dignity By Amanda A and Carlos B PROVIDENCE, RI – On May 15, 2025, nearly 800 healthcare workers at Butler Hospital, a major psychiatric hosp...

REPORT: Rhode Island’s Longest Healthcare Strike

"They think the union is too strong, we are too united, we are too powerful, we had too much of a say in trying to make our hospital better – and they don’t want it to be like that." working-mass.com/2025/08/07/r...

In 113-Year First, Fenway Park Concessions Workers Go On Strike - Working Mass FENWAY PARK, MA – For the first time in over a century, America’s Favorite Ballpark’s concessions workers are on strike. UNITE HERE Local 26 gave Aramark a 48-hour deadline on Wednesday, July 23, to m...

BREAKING: For the first time in over a century, UNITE HERE Local 26 concessions workers are on strike at Fenway Park and MGM Music Hall!

At America's Favorite Ballpark, workers want better wages and compensation stolen by automation.

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‘Time is Tissue’ - Medicaid Cuts Set To Decimate Mass Workers’ Healthcare - Working Mass By: Zachary Wright WORCESTER, MA – On July 4, 2025, Donald Trump signed into law his “Big Beautiful Bill.” The bill is draconian and destructive on every level of the social contract. One of the most ...

'Time is Tissue' - Medicaid Cuts Set To Decimate Mass Workers’ Healthcare

Read one rank-and-file Worcester nurse's description of the healthcare disaster the so-called Big Beautiful Bill will wreak on workers in the Bay State and beyond -

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Trader Joe's United Fights a Third Year Against Unionbusting Tactics - Working Mass By: Chris Brady Hadley, M.A. – The sleepy town of 5,000 next to Amherst is usually known for its annual asparagus festival and university move-in day traffic. But in mid-2022, Hadley shocked the natio...

"Trader Joe’s has engaged in numerous delay tactics to try and delay bargaining and try and make us argue about stuff that’s just not true," one worker-organizer told us.

Read into the fight of Trader Joe's United: working-mass.com/2025/07/22/t...

Optimizing Versus Organizing: An Inventory of the Bosses' Weapons - Working Mass By: Frederick Reiber BOSTON, MA – While the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that only 11.1 percent of the workforce is covered by a union, nonetheless, support for unions remains at a 70-year high....

Organizing in 2025 means contending with a growing arsenal of digital tools designed to disorganize and disempower, optimizing bosses’ own class struggle against workers.

Read about how you can fight back against the bosses' tech: working-mass.com/2025/07/07/o...

Sanitation Workers Strike for Fair Compensation Against Waste Disposal Giant - Working Mass PEABODY, MA – Over 400 sanitation workers across Massachusetts went on strike on Tuesday, July 2, amidst contract disputes with the waste disposal corporation Republic Services. The workers are repres...

BREAKING: Over 400 sanitation workers organized with IBT Local 25 across Massachusetts went on strike on Tuesday, July 2, amidst contract disputes with the waste disposal corporation Republic Services.

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On Wednesday, at 9PM ET | 6PM PT, July 2, Working Mass will be hosting the 2025 NPC Labor Forum to bring members and potential future leaders of @demsocialists.bsky.social together to discuss DSA labor strategy.

Only 48 hours remain to RSVP: working-mass.solidarity.tech/working-mass...

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ran an incredible campaign in NYC & did @socialists.nyc proud! @bostondsa.org also has the opportunity to elect a young, BIPOC mayor fighting for working people, renters, people of color, and queer folks. If you want to help, go to linktr.ee/WillieforSomerville

"I’m Going To Be a Pro-Union, Pro-Worker Mayor": Will Willie Burnley, Jr. Bring Zohran Energy to Somerville? - Working Mass By: Maxine Bouvier SOMERVILLE, MA – Since March, 2025, Somerville City Councillor-at-Large Willie Burnley Jr.’s campaign for the city’s highest executive office has been endorsed by Boston DSA. In Apr...

"I’m Going To Be a Pro-Union, Pro-Worker Mayor”: Will Willie Burnley, Jr. Bring Zohran Energy to Somerville?

Workers inspired by New York have one looming question: will @willieburnleyjr.bsky.social electrify the Somerville working class the same way?

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UAWD Dissolved?: A Report on the Working Mass Forum - Working Mass In May 2025, Working Mass hosted a forum on the UAWD dissolution. Here, a UAWD member reports on the forum and UAWD dissolution itself.

REPORT: Recently, Working Mass hosted a forum on the UAWD reform caucus's dissolution dispute.

Union members, including UAWD leaders, tuned in from around the country to discuss the historic development in the heart of the reform movement: working-mass.com/2025/06/24/u...

1000 Fenway Park Concessions Workers To Strike For First Time in 113 Years - Working Mass By: Andrew S FENWAY PARK, MA – Concessions workers at the world’s oldest baseball stadium have decided resoundingly to strike for the first time in their 113-year history. On Sunday, June 15, 2025, Fe...

NEWS: 1000 Fenway Park Concessions Workers To Strike For First Time in 113 Years!

How did decades invested in America's favorite ballpark drive UNITE HERE Local 26 concessions workers to strike?

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Somerville Fights for Palestine - Working Mass By Nick Lavin SOMERVILLE, MA — Just outside the Somerville Farmers Market, two Somerville for Palestine organizers – Lauren and Hala – lead a training for a dozen canvassers prepared and ready to enga...

SOMERVILLE FIGHTS FOR PALESTINE --

Read our report on Somerville for Palestine's campaign for city divestment through ballot measure, gathering signatures and building a base for Palestine at the municipal level: working-mass.com/2025/06/11/s...

Baristas Versus the Machine: Boston Workers of Blank Street Coffee File for a Union - Working Mass By: Liam Noble BOSTON, MA – A supermajority of the 70 Blank Street Coffee employees in the Boston area filed for voluntary recognition from management as members of the New England Joint Board (NEJB)....

Baristas vs. The Machine: Boston Workers of Blank Street Coffee File for a Union

Read our report on how an advanced espresso machine, and everything it represents, pushed baristas to fight for a contract at Blank Street Coffee in Boston --

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Image f woman holding up phone in rally with poster that reads Free David: End ICE Raids Now!

ANALYSIS: Boston unions rally against ICE, LA union leader detention

How will the labor movement and the left respond more broadly as Trump takes unionists for political prisoners and threatens martial law?

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