Working Mass
@dsaworkingmass.bsky.social
Labor news, analysis, and working class life and culture in Massachusetts, as reported by union members and DSA members
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OUT NOW: The Palestine Papers, fourth edition.
Regardless of whether you're a seasoned or new organizer, this is for you. The Palestine Papers seek to spotlight, reinforce, and grow the contributions of Massachusetts in the fight.
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Regardless of whether you're a seasoned or new organizer, this is for you. The Palestine Papers seek to spotlight, reinforce, and grow the contributions of Massachusetts in the fight.
Read now: working-mass.com/wp-content/u...
August 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
OUT NOW: The Palestine Papers, fourth edition.
Regardless of whether you're a seasoned or new organizer, this is for you. The Palestine Papers seek to spotlight, reinforce, and grow the contributions of Massachusetts in the fight.
Read now: working-mass.com/wp-content/u...
Regardless of whether you're a seasoned or new organizer, this is for you. The Palestine Papers seek to spotlight, reinforce, and grow the contributions of Massachusetts in the fight.
Read now: working-mass.com/wp-content/u...
On Wednesday, at 9PM ET | 6PM PT, July 2, Working Mass will be hosting the 2025 NPC Labor Forum to bring members and potential future leaders of @demsocialists.bsky.social together to discuss DSA labor strategy.
Only 48 hours remain to RSVP: working-mass.solidarity.tech/working-mass...
Only 48 hours remain to RSVP: working-mass.solidarity.tech/working-mass...
July 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
On Wednesday, at 9PM ET | 6PM PT, July 2, Working Mass will be hosting the 2025 NPC Labor Forum to bring members and potential future leaders of @demsocialists.bsky.social together to discuss DSA labor strategy.
Only 48 hours remain to RSVP: working-mass.solidarity.tech/working-mass...
Only 48 hours remain to RSVP: working-mass.solidarity.tech/working-mass...
ANALYSIS: Boston unions rally against ICE, LA union leader detention
How will the labor movement and the left respond more broadly as Trump takes unionists for political prisoners and threatens martial law?
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How will the labor movement and the left respond more broadly as Trump takes unionists for political prisoners and threatens martial law?
working-mass.com/2025/06/10/b...
June 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
ANALYSIS: Boston unions rally against ICE, LA union leader detention
How will the labor movement and the left respond more broadly as Trump takes unionists for political prisoners and threatens martial law?
working-mass.com/2025/06/10/b...
How will the labor movement and the left respond more broadly as Trump takes unionists for political prisoners and threatens martial law?
working-mass.com/2025/06/10/b...
WORKERS INTERVIEWED: UMass Hospital Staff Consider Striking for Strong Contract
Read Working Mass's interview with two members of the UFCW Local 1445's bargaining committee in their contract fight, one day before workers vote on the hospital's offer.
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Read Working Mass's interview with two members of the UFCW Local 1445's bargaining committee in their contract fight, one day before workers vote on the hospital's offer.
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June 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
WORKERS INTERVIEWED: UMass Hospital Staff Consider Striking for Strong Contract
Read Working Mass's interview with two members of the UFCW Local 1445's bargaining committee in their contract fight, one day before workers vote on the hospital's offer.
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Read Working Mass's interview with two members of the UFCW Local 1445's bargaining committee in their contract fight, one day before workers vote on the hospital's offer.
working-mass.com/2025/06/05/u...
FEATURE: Throughout May, Working Mass investigated ICE operations in Massachusetts.
This is our comprehensive report.
Read about freeing organizers, overwhelming ICE during a Worcester raid, and a popular blockade at Somerville High that stopped ICE.
working-mass.com/2025/05/30/f...
This is our comprehensive report.
Read about freeing organizers, overwhelming ICE during a Worcester raid, and a popular blockade at Somerville High that stopped ICE.
working-mass.com/2025/05/30/f...
June 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
FEATURE: Throughout May, Working Mass investigated ICE operations in Massachusetts.
This is our comprehensive report.
Read about freeing organizers, overwhelming ICE during a Worcester raid, and a popular blockade at Somerville High that stopped ICE.
working-mass.com/2025/05/30/f...
This is our comprehensive report.
Read about freeing organizers, overwhelming ICE during a Worcester raid, and a popular blockade at Somerville High that stopped ICE.
working-mass.com/2025/05/30/f...
FEATURE: Worcester DSA Leads May Day in the Heart of the Commonwealth
Read now about May Day in central Mass, labor heroes of Worcester past like "Red Flame" Anne Burlak, and recent actions by higher ed workers and nurses showing the continued might of labor today. working-mass.com/2025/05/09/w...
Read now about May Day in central Mass, labor heroes of Worcester past like "Red Flame" Anne Burlak, and recent actions by higher ed workers and nurses showing the continued might of labor today. working-mass.com/2025/05/09/w...
May 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
FEATURE: Worcester DSA Leads May Day in the Heart of the Commonwealth
Read now about May Day in central Mass, labor heroes of Worcester past like "Red Flame" Anne Burlak, and recent actions by higher ed workers and nurses showing the continued might of labor today. working-mass.com/2025/05/09/w...
Read now about May Day in central Mass, labor heroes of Worcester past like "Red Flame" Anne Burlak, and recent actions by higher ed workers and nurses showing the continued might of labor today. working-mass.com/2025/05/09/w...
NEWS: Victory for BDS as Elbit Systems Loses Lucrative MIT-ILP Contract
On the MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston's campaign forcing Elbit Systems to lose a huge contract, the People's Arms Embargo, and looking onward to Maersk.
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On the MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston's campaign forcing Elbit Systems to lose a huge contract, the People's Arms Embargo, and looking onward to Maersk.
working-mass.com/2025/04/30/v...
April 30, 2025 at 6:16 PM
NEWS: Victory for BDS as Elbit Systems Loses Lucrative MIT-ILP Contract
On the MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston's campaign forcing Elbit Systems to lose a huge contract, the People's Arms Embargo, and looking onward to Maersk.
working-mass.com/2025/04/30/v...
On the MIT Coalition for Palestine and BDS Boston's campaign forcing Elbit Systems to lose a huge contract, the People's Arms Embargo, and looking onward to Maersk.
working-mass.com/2025/04/30/v...
READ: Sean O'Brien - A Labor Leader Turns Right
Most lately attacking socialists on X, "there are signs that [O'Brien's] turn to the right may have corrosive effects on both the labor movement itself and the rank-and-file membership of the IBT."
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Most lately attacking socialists on X, "there are signs that [O'Brien's] turn to the right may have corrosive effects on both the labor movement itself and the rank-and-file membership of the IBT."
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April 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
READ: Sean O'Brien - A Labor Leader Turns Right
Most lately attacking socialists on X, "there are signs that [O'Brien's] turn to the right may have corrosive effects on both the labor movement itself and the rank-and-file membership of the IBT."
working-mass.com/2025/04/29/s...
Most lately attacking socialists on X, "there are signs that [O'Brien's] turn to the right may have corrosive effects on both the labor movement itself and the rank-and-file membership of the IBT."
working-mass.com/2025/04/29/s...
Boston University YDSA Chapter Suspended in Crackdown on Sanctuary Campus Movement
Investigating BU's crackdown, the sanctuary campus movement, and what university administrations' actions say about class struggle on campus under Trump
Read now: working-mass.com/2025/04/29/b...
Investigating BU's crackdown, the sanctuary campus movement, and what university administrations' actions say about class struggle on campus under Trump
Read now: working-mass.com/2025/04/29/b...
April 29, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Boston University YDSA Chapter Suspended in Crackdown on Sanctuary Campus Movement
Investigating BU's crackdown, the sanctuary campus movement, and what university administrations' actions say about class struggle on campus under Trump
Read now: working-mass.com/2025/04/29/b...
Investigating BU's crackdown, the sanctuary campus movement, and what university administrations' actions say about class struggle on campus under Trump
Read now: working-mass.com/2025/04/29/b...
Strengthening Solidarity: Healthcare Organizing in Boston and Beyond
READ: MassCare, the intransigency of the Mass State House, and a look into the challenges of DSA campaigns for Medicare for All as well as medical debt relief in 2025
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READ: MassCare, the intransigency of the Mass State House, and a look into the challenges of DSA campaigns for Medicare for All as well as medical debt relief in 2025
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April 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Strengthening Solidarity: Healthcare Organizing in Boston and Beyond
READ: MassCare, the intransigency of the Mass State House, and a look into the challenges of DSA campaigns for Medicare for All as well as medical debt relief in 2025
working-mass.com/2025/04/23/s...
READ: MassCare, the intransigency of the Mass State House, and a look into the challenges of DSA campaigns for Medicare for All as well as medical debt relief in 2025
working-mass.com/2025/04/23/s...
READ: Mass Labor Fought Apartheid and Won. We Can Again.
UE 256 member Richard S's investigation into the labor-led struggle against South African apartheid in Massachusetts, strategy, and what its lessons hold for the Palestine movement.
working-mass.com/2025/04/18/m...
UE 256 member Richard S's investigation into the labor-led struggle against South African apartheid in Massachusetts, strategy, and what its lessons hold for the Palestine movement.
working-mass.com/2025/04/18/m...
April 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
READ: Mass Labor Fought Apartheid and Won. We Can Again.
UE 256 member Richard S's investigation into the labor-led struggle against South African apartheid in Massachusetts, strategy, and what its lessons hold for the Palestine movement.
working-mass.com/2025/04/18/m...
UE 256 member Richard S's investigation into the labor-led struggle against South African apartheid in Massachusetts, strategy, and what its lessons hold for the Palestine movement.
working-mass.com/2025/04/18/m...
READ NOW:
Brandeis research associates, department coordinators, and other academic workers campaigned to successful ratification with SEIU 888 at the beginning of this year by building power with the community:
working-mass.com/2025/04/11/b...
Brandeis research associates, department coordinators, and other academic workers campaigned to successful ratification with SEIU 888 at the beginning of this year by building power with the community:
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April 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
READ NOW:
Brandeis research associates, department coordinators, and other academic workers campaigned to successful ratification with SEIU 888 at the beginning of this year by building power with the community:
working-mass.com/2025/04/11/b...
Brandeis research associates, department coordinators, and other academic workers campaigned to successful ratification with SEIU 888 at the beginning of this year by building power with the community:
working-mass.com/2025/04/11/b...
READ: Shelter Residents, Socialists Call on Cambridge to Save Transition Wellness Center
"Any one of us could lose everything tomorrow… if you don’t help these people up, then you’re sentencing them to a life in hell."
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"Any one of us could lose everything tomorrow… if you don’t help these people up, then you’re sentencing them to a life in hell."
working-mass.com/2025/04/09/s...
April 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
READ: Shelter Residents, Socialists Call on Cambridge to Save Transition Wellness Center
"Any one of us could lose everything tomorrow… if you don’t help these people up, then you’re sentencing them to a life in hell."
working-mass.com/2025/04/09/s...
"Any one of us could lose everything tomorrow… if you don’t help these people up, then you’re sentencing them to a life in hell."
working-mass.com/2025/04/09/s...
FLASHES OF MILITANCY: Inside the Greater Boston Movement to Free Rümeysa
Read our investigation into the local movement to free Somerville tenant Rümeysa Öztürk, including timeline and frontline reports from four authors on the movement's development:
working-mass.com/2025/04/08/f...
Read our investigation into the local movement to free Somerville tenant Rümeysa Öztürk, including timeline and frontline reports from four authors on the movement's development:
working-mass.com/2025/04/08/f...
April 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
FLASHES OF MILITANCY: Inside the Greater Boston Movement to Free Rümeysa
Read our investigation into the local movement to free Somerville tenant Rümeysa Öztürk, including timeline and frontline reports from four authors on the movement's development:
working-mass.com/2025/04/08/f...
Read our investigation into the local movement to free Somerville tenant Rümeysa Öztürk, including timeline and frontline reports from four authors on the movement's development:
working-mass.com/2025/04/08/f...
OPINION: Escalating When You're Under Attack
Somerville DSA's co-chair on the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk from Somerville, escalation, and how class organization can let us take greater collective risks:
working-mass.com/2025/03/31/o...
Somerville DSA's co-chair on the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk from Somerville, escalation, and how class organization can let us take greater collective risks:
working-mass.com/2025/03/31/o...
March 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
OPINION: Escalating When You're Under Attack
Somerville DSA's co-chair on the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk from Somerville, escalation, and how class organization can let us take greater collective risks:
working-mass.com/2025/03/31/o...
Somerville DSA's co-chair on the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk from Somerville, escalation, and how class organization can let us take greater collective risks:
working-mass.com/2025/03/31/o...
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has abducted a Tufts PhD student alongside a multi-day ICE raid detaining 370 people in Massachusetts.
This is a developing story.
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This is a developing story.
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March 26, 2025 at 4:04 PM
BREAKING: The Trump Administration has abducted a Tufts PhD student alongside a multi-day ICE raid detaining 370 people in Massachusetts.
This is a developing story.
working-mass.com/2025/03/26/t...
This is a developing story.
working-mass.com/2025/03/26/t...
Local Starbucks Workers United Organizing Continues with NH Store Unionizing, Solidarity Sip-Ins
From filings to sip-ins to strikes, read more about the latest in SBWU's fight for respect on the job:
working-mass.com/2025/03/21/l...
From filings to sip-ins to strikes, read more about the latest in SBWU's fight for respect on the job:
working-mass.com/2025/03/21/l...
March 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Local Starbucks Workers United Organizing Continues with NH Store Unionizing, Solidarity Sip-Ins
From filings to sip-ins to strikes, read more about the latest in SBWU's fight for respect on the job:
working-mass.com/2025/03/21/l...
From filings to sip-ins to strikes, read more about the latest in SBWU's fight for respect on the job:
working-mass.com/2025/03/21/l...
BREAKING:
Clark Undergrads Launch Strike, Take Attacks On Student-Worker Rights Head On
The strike, backed by the powerful @teamsters.bsky.social union, is an early bet that strike action can overcome Trump-administration backtracking on the rights of student-workers.
Read article below.
Clark Undergrads Launch Strike, Take Attacks On Student-Worker Rights Head On
The strike, backed by the powerful @teamsters.bsky.social union, is an early bet that strike action can overcome Trump-administration backtracking on the rights of student-workers.
Read article below.
March 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
BREAKING:
Clark Undergrads Launch Strike, Take Attacks On Student-Worker Rights Head On
The strike, backed by the powerful @teamsters.bsky.social union, is an early bet that strike action can overcome Trump-administration backtracking on the rights of student-workers.
Read article below.
Clark Undergrads Launch Strike, Take Attacks On Student-Worker Rights Head On
The strike, backed by the powerful @teamsters.bsky.social union, is an early bet that strike action can overcome Trump-administration backtracking on the rights of student-workers.
Read article below.
The rally followed immediately after the higher education labor rally against federal funding cuts earlier at Government Center.
February 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The rally followed immediately after the higher education labor rally against federal funding cuts earlier at Government Center.
More than 300 federal workers, union members, and community supporters rallied in Downtown Boston on Wednesday in front of the Tip O’Neill Federal Building to protest the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts to public services and illegal mass terminations of federal workers.
February 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
More than 300 federal workers, union members, and community supporters rallied in Downtown Boston on Wednesday in front of the Tip O’Neill Federal Building to protest the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts to public services and illegal mass terminations of federal workers.
READ - Federal Workers, Unions Rally In Boston Against Cuts and Illegal Firings
Great job to @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for organizing this tremendous rally.
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Great job to @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for organizing this tremendous rally.
working-mass.com/2025/02/21/f...
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
READ - Federal Workers, Unions Rally In Boston Against Cuts and Illegal Firings
Great job to @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for organizing this tremendous rally.
working-mass.com/2025/02/21/f...
Great job to @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for organizing this tremendous rally.
working-mass.com/2025/02/21/f...
18 unions - one movement.
Rally to defend higher ed in Boston.
Rally to defend higher ed in Boston.
February 19, 2025 at 11:10 PM
18 unions - one movement.
Rally to defend higher ed in Boston.
Rally to defend higher ed in Boston.
READ - Cambridge Socialists, Students Shoot Down Unelected City Manager’s Police Surveillance Drone Proposal
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February 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
READ - Cambridge Socialists, Students Shoot Down Unelected City Manager’s Police Surveillance Drone Proposal
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