Feature Articles

  • March 24, 2014
    Governor’s Advisory Committee on Employee Health and Safety Releases Findings

    An Advisory Committee created by Governor Deval Patrick to study state work-place risks and dangers released a landmark... read more
  • March 13, 2014
    Worcester Teen Wins Big

    With state data showing Massachusetts teens average over 700 work-related emergency room visits each year, Boston teens and state officials working to change these statistics announced the winners of the statewide 4th annual Safe... read more
  • March 11, 2014
    Task Force Calls Zero Waste Key to Good Jobs, Green Economy

    Before a standing room only crowd, the Boston Zero Waste Task Force, a multi-stakeholder group made up of labor and business leaders, community and neighborhood groups, Zero Waste and recycling experts, and environmental and social... read more
  • February 24, 2014
    Temp Worker Law Birthday Presents Results

    On January 30th, in MassCOSH’s new East Boston worker center office, temporary workers and community and labor supporters commemorated the anniversary of the Temp Worker Right to Know Law’s passage with chants and testimonies.  The... read more
  • February 24, 2014
    An Injustice Even in Death

    MassCOSH board member Melissa King is fighting to spare families that have recently lost a loved one on the job a second tragedy. Having lost her own father from a work fatality at Logan Airport, the King family was forced to spend... read more
  • February 24, 2014
    Award-Winning Air Quality

    Tolle Graham, MassCOSH’s Union and Healthy Schools Coordinator, has a very special relationship with the Trotter Elementary School in Roxbury. It’s where she sent her own children when they were younger and now it’s where she works... read more
  • February 19, 2014
    Temp workers, allies, demand Billerica employer restore fired workers, end wage theft

    The morning of February 19th, MassCOSH and former employees hand delivered a written Letter of Complaint to the supply chain company Fulfillment America and its contracted temporary agency seeking an end to wage theft, unlawful... read more
  • February 10, 2014
    The Loss of Michael

    The recent death of long-time Natick employee Michael F. McDaniel Jr., is a stark reminder of the dangers our municipal public works employees face each day. It also highlights the urgent need for health and safety requirements... read more
  • January 30, 2014
    At One Year Anniversary, Mass. Activists Hail Groundbreaking Law Protecting Temp Workers

    One year after a groundbreaking temporary agency reform law went into effect in Massachusetts, advocates are hailing the law’s role in combating labor abuse and promoting transparency for the tens of thousands of temporary workers... read more
  • December 12, 2013
    Two Boston Worker Deaths too Many

    Two immigrant workers at construction and shipping worksites were killed less than five days apart in the city of Boston. With multi-story building under construction and new projects announced throughout Greater Boston, employers... read more

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