Stepping Up to Help Our Members in Need
The pandemic has hit vulnerable workers hard, but none so much as undocumented workers. Just a few months ago, these workers played an essential role in our economy, laboring hard to clean our buildings, cook our food, sort our recycling, and other critical jobs.
Our Virus Data Demands Show Progress
Since the very beginning of the pandemic, MassCOSH has been pressed policymakers to mandate the collection of occupational information when someone tests positive for COVID-19.
Black Lives Matter Requires Labor's Full Support
In MassCOSHs four decades of operation, we have forged hundreds of coalitions that connect the needs of union and non-union workers to ensure that they can all earn a fair wage, be treated with dignity, and return home to their families alive and well.
MassCOSH Announces Support of Comprehensive COVID-19 Surge Protection Legislation
The organization states the bill offers the most compressive worker health and safety protections it is has seen come from the State House and would dramatically increase the publics ability to contain SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Water. Rest. Shade.
Summer has begun and with temperatures rising, so too is the risk of heat stress.
Workers Largely Exposed to Micro Dangers
On May 18, MassCOSH issued failing grades to Governor Bakers Reopening Massachusetts plan because of its failure to adequately protect workers and the public.
We Remember Those We Lost
Every month as part of our newsletter, we take a moment to name and remember those who we lost as a result of a workplace injury or illness the previous month.
Trainings Take to the Web
As the economy reopens amid a viral pandemic the medical community admits it knows little about, vetted, expert information on how to stay safe on the job is an invaluable resource.
Workplace violence fact sheet
Workplace violence fact sheet
Task force: reopening plans shortchange people disproportionately affected
Task force: Reopening plans dont offer enough help for people disproportionately affected by crisis Among the conditions it wants met is a drop in the infection rates among minority groups.By Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent,Updated June 4, 2020, 10:19 a.m.
Phase 2 Reopening Demands
On May 18, MassCOSH issued failing grades to Governor Bakers Reopening Massachusetts plan because of its failure to adequately protect workers and the public.
MassCOSH States Workers are not Expendable Commodities
Now, as the State quickly moves towards Phase 2 in which restaurants, childcare facilities, retail stores, hotels, libraries and some movie theaters will be opening, thousands of workers will be heading back to their jobs. Yet, essential and Phase 1 workers continue to contract COVID-19 every day.
Over 30 South Shore employees file federal complaints about unsafe working conditions amid pandemic
By Anastasia E. Lennon / The Patriot Ledger Posted May 29, 2020 at 1:23 PMUpdated May 30, 2020 at 2:14 PM Employer is not sanitizing workspace. Temporary employees are being transported to workplace in crowded vans. Store is not enforcing social distancing.
'We're Not Just Essential Workers, We're Human Beings': Advocates Want Slowdown Of Mass. Reopening
'We're Not Just Essential Workers, We're Human Beings': Advocates Want Slowdown Of Mass. Reopening May 25, 2020 By Simn Rios This Memorial Day, those who have died of COVID-19 are also being remembered.
MassCOSH Gives Gov. Baker’s Reopening Plans Failing Grades
We are in the midst of an unprecedented worker health and safety crisis and need a plan for reopening the economy that truly protects workers and the public. The plan released by Governor Baker does not accomplish this vital task, and thus we are forced to give it failing grades.
