Feature Articles

  • April 27, 2023
    NEW REPORT: Dangerous Jobs Killed 51 Workers in Massachusetts Last Year

    The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO collaborated to produce this year's Dying for Work: Loss of Life and Limb in Massachusetts Workplaces report (Click here to... read more
  • April 14, 2023
    We're Hiring: Worker Center Organizer

    The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works to ensure that all workers are treated with respect and dignity, earn a fair wage and return home to... read more
  • October 13, 2022
    Al Vega becomes MassCOSH Chief of Strategy and Engagement/ MassCOSH Looking to Hire Chief of Operations

    As of October 15, 2022, Al Vega, long time member of the MassCOSH team, will become its first-ever Chief of Strategy and Engagement. The new role is part of a re-structuring plan as outgoing Executive Director Jodi Sugerman-Brozan... read more
  • August 18, 2022
    Massachusetts State and Local Government Workers Achieve Workplace Safety Breakthrough

    On August 17, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration granted Massachusetts initial approval to enable Massachusetts’s safety and health plan to be responsible for protecting state and local... read more
  • July 23, 2022
    Progress on Public Sector OSHA

    One of MassCOSH’s historic victories is about to hit an exciting benchmark. In 2019, after over a decade of advocacy, MassCOSH and our allies secured the expanded OSHA protections to approximately 430,000 Massachusetts State and... read more
  • July 22, 2022
    Meet Josi

    MassCOSH is pleased to welcome our new intern, Josi Gomes Timas. Josi comes to us from the esteemed Labor Studies program at UMass Boston and works with MassCOSH Tuesdays and Thursdays, assisting our Teens Lead @ Work program and... read more
  • July 21, 2022
    TL@W Is Back for Its 21st(!) Summer Programing Session

    It’s crazy to believe that MassCOSH’s first ever TL@W participants could now have children old enough to join the program themselves, a true testament to the longevity of a program that has reached thousands of young people with... read more
  • July 21, 2022
    Trainings Heat Up in Brockton

    Last month, MassCOSH Director of Policy and Programs, Al Vega, joined with the Massachusetts Labor Guild and the Brockton Workers Alliance for two Saturday’s worth of trainings for low-wage workers. The Labor Guild is one of many... read more
  • June 16, 2022
    A MassCOSH May to Remember

    May was a month of celebration and recognition for MassCOSH! On May 5, for the first time since 2019, MassCOSH held our Celebrating the Movement fundraiser in person at Freeport Hall at IBEW Local 103. Not only did the party raise... read more
  • June 16, 2022
    Organizing for Heat Safety in the Workplace

    In 2019, 43 workers died from heat illness nationwide and at least 2,410 additional workers suffered serious heat-related injuries and illnesses. As climate change leads to increasingly hot weather, occupational safety experts see... read more

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