New Bedford Workers Center Signs Groundbreaking Agreement with Temp Agency to Uplift Job Standards

 

Last week, temp workers who had long sought an end to unsafe conditions, improper wage payments, and overcrowded transportation, watched as a major southeastern Massachusetts temporary employer signed a groundbreaking pledge to institute sweeping improvements to their employment conditions. 

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MBCR maintenance facility responds to safety violations

The Tufts Daily - November 16, 2011

The Massachusetts Bay Commuter Railroad Company this month entered negotiations with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to address health and safety violations recently cited against MBCR's Somerville maintenance facility.

In death, fired nurse aids rights of workers

The Star Tribune (St.Paul) - 9/23/2011

Anne Whitledge, who died last August from brain cancer was an emloyee of Maxim Healthcare Services, a health care giant that fired her rather than make accommodations for her disability. They must now send a letter of condolences to her survivors, along with a check for $160,000.

Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs Overall? Not So Much

ProPublica.org - Marian Wong, 09/21/2011

It’s become a mantra on Capitol Hill and a rallying cry for industry groups: Get rid of the job-killing regulations. In recent days, with nearly every one of the GOP presidential candidates repeating that refrain, the political echo chamber has grown even louder. Earlier this month, President Obama also asked the Environmental Protection Agency to back off more stringent ozone regulations, citing the "importance of reducing regulatory burdens" during trying economic times.

But is the claim that regulation kills jobs true?

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