MassCOSH is very proud of a brave group of hotel housekeepers who have successfully brought their employer to the bargaining table to address workplace bullying, back wages, overtime, stolen tips, and retaliation damages.
On May 1, May Day, also known as International Workers Day, MassCOSH could be found throughout the Boston area as we joined with our allies to pay tribute to the power of workers and to highlight the demands working people have to achieve a more just and equitable place to labor and live.
MassCOSHs Teens Lead @ Work program is pleased to be able to provide free trainings to young people this summer.
Undertrained by his employer on how to stay safe on the job, Cifuentes was told to hold a guide rope that was connected to a damaged tree. When the tree snapped, he was thrown against a rock and killed.
Links for the first time working outside the home to a dramatic risk of death due to COVID-19 On December 10, 2019, Vidal Bravo Cifuentes, a 34-year-old day laborer, was killed during a tree removal operation at a house in Wakefield.
New Report Documents Loss of Workers Lives on the Job in 2019 and 2020 Links for the first time working outside the home to a dramatic risk of death due to COVID-19 On December 10, 2019, Vidal Bravo Cifuentes, a 34-year-old day laborer, was killed during a tr...
Since the very beginning of the pandemic, MassCOSHs Programs and Policy Director Al Vega has been working closely with our allies and members like the Brockton Workers Alliance, the Mass.
Health Resources in Action (HRA), in collaboration with MA. Department of Public Health is offering a virtual, two-hour interactive training based on MassCOSHs research on the role that workplace pain and injury can play in causing opioid use disorder and overdose.
This past March was Women's History Month and MassCOSHs Worker Center honored it in part by holding a training for immigrant women on sexual harassment at work and how to recognize sex and gender discrimination.
Jordan Romero and Carlos Gutierres, left for work early one morning this past February, never to return home.
On February 1, 2019, after a decade-long campaign, a new law went into effect that established federal OSHA regulations as the minimum safety standard for public workers.
Many of us saw the work we do change during the pandemic and MassCOSHs Immigrant Worker Center is no exception. As many of its members lost work and were excluded from critical government benefits, we mobilized to provide much-needed aid.
MassCOSH is very happy to announce its newest team member in the fight for good, safe jobs for all. Joe Tache joined MassCOSH this past January as its new Youth Programs Director leading our Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) program.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, MassCOSH has reached thousands of workers through multi-lingual, virtual town halls that provide science-based information on how to stay safe, how to access paid time-off benefits to quarantine and recover from COVID-19, and how to enforce COVID-19 worker health and safety regul...
Around the country, and here in Massachusetts, there have been multiple COVID-19 outbreaks among retail, food processing, childcare, and nursing home workers, and many others. But the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has been missing in action.
