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This month, two fast-food chains paid the price for violating child labor laws: Chipotle was hit with a $1.37 million fine for more than 13,000 child labor violations at its Massachusetts restaurants and Wendys was hit with $400,000 in fines for more than 2,100 child labor violations.

Twice a year, MassCOSH’s Trainer & Technical Consultant Rick Rabin reaches out to close to 40 English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) schools in the area, letting them know that MassCOSH will be offering free trainings for their students, staff, and others on their rights as workers in the Commonwealth. T...

MassCOSH is very pleased to announce that it has doubled the capacity of our Worker Center! After a brief period where the center was staffed solely by the capable hands Director Milagros Barreto, Brenda Quintana replaces former MassCOSH employee Erica Snchez as our new Worker Center Organizer.

We are very pleased to introduce our newest MassCOSH Board members who will help lead MassCOSH into 2020 and beyond. Traci Teal joined our board this December at our Annual Meeting.

It will come as no surprise to fans of MassCOSHs Teens Lead @ Work that our youth leaders are hard at work pushing policies that will help prepare school districts for the undeniable future of hotter temperatures from climate change.

Hundreds of thousands of workers can thank labor movement advocates for their pay increase this month when the state minimum wage increased from $12 to $12.75.

We are very pleased to release MassCOSH's first-ever Annual Report. This 2019 recap highlights our finances, who we are, and what key accomplishes we won in the fight to further good, safe jobs for all.

On December 5, MassCOSHs Teens Lead @ Work (TL@W) took part in a Boston Public Schools Youth Community meeting with the Citys new Superintendent Brenda Cassellius. The meeting was organized by motivated and engaged students of the school system who are part of the Boston Student Advisory Council.

December 5, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mitchell H.

If we are doing our job right, when you hear about worker justice in Massachusetts, you think of MassCOSH. But what about beyond our state borders?

Workplace Safety Advocates Hope Employer Prison Sentence Deters Others from Putting Workers in Danger BOSTON Today, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Mitchell H.

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MassCOSH is seeking a full-time Health and Safety Trainer . Please click the bolded text to learn more about the position. We offer salary transparency, generous vacation and holiday policies, full individual health, dental and 2% contribution to your 401K.

Description MassCOSH and CPH-NEW seek up to four (4) Trainers for a series of opioid-awareness trainings that will be offered as part of the Mining Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) refresher courses in January and February 2020.

On September 26, MassCOSH members, Justice at Work, and Fair Work Law gathered to celebrate a temp worker victory year in the making.