The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) seeks a dynamic Executive Director to build on the organization’s exceptional record of advocating for safe, healthy workplaces since 1976. MassCOSH’s mission is to ensure that all workers can go to work and return home with their health and well-being intact.
[This is a bilingual message / Este es un mensaje bilingüe] Join us on Wednesday, May 1st to commemorate International Workers’ Day and to fight for a living wage, democracy and equity for all our communities! We’ll gather in East Boston at 3:30pm at Central Sq Park (216 Border St,…
*Please note this event will be taking place rain or shine. Please dress appropriately* Please join us if you can for this truly powerful event. This day of remembrance, healing, and action is made all the more powerful by your attendance. At this event we will honor workers who were…
The Immigrant Worker Center was hard at work this year assisting workers with a myriad of cases, from refusal to cover sick time, to retaliation, to refusal to pay workers’ compensation, to outright wage theft. Many companies, unfortunately, continue to exploit workers, especially immigrant workers, and prioritize profits over their…
Fatal injury and illness continue to impact Massachusetts workers
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 their families alive and well. We educate and mobilize workers, unions, and community activists to…
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 will be joining the City of Boston and Mayor Michelle Wu’s new Cabinet for Worker Empowerment as Deputy Chief, with a focus on worker protections. MassCOSH will also be hiring a Chief of Operations to join Al as part of a new leadership team.
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 government workers with safety standards that meet or exceed OSHA standards for private sector workers. The Massachusetts State…
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 Municipal workers when the Act to Further Define Standards of Employee Safety went into effect.
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 our Worker Center. Under a decade ago, Josi moved to the…
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 the message their health and safety on the job matters. On July…
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 MassCOSH faith-based partners and can trace its roots back to the Great Depression,…