Roving UHub photographer George Carroll Jr. reports that at 11:50 p.m. on Thursday, in the cold and rain, he spotted Geoff Applegate maintaining a solo picket outside the Stop & Shop on East Broadway in South Boston. The store wasn't open to the public but, Applegate told Carroll, he was there in case the company tried making a delivery.
The Huntington News reports Northeastern University wants the National Labor Relations Board to rule that non-tenure-track professors are managers ineligible to unionize, no matter how poorly they might get paid.
After Christine Fontánez's video of Roy Bourque coming out of the North Andover Stop & Shop this morning started spreading, the former Bruins player responded: Read more.
On strike on Truman Parkway in Hyde Park.
At 1 p.m., the United Food & Commercial Workers declared a strike against Stop & Shop across New England. As workers walked out of stores, managers, with nobody left to do any work except for Marty the Spill Finding Robot, shut the stores and associated gas stations. Read more.
Local 12003 of the United Steelworkers posted tonight:
As of 10:15 PM tonight all picketing operations in Local 12003 and 12012-04 will cease immediately. Together both locals have reached a tentative agreement. There is a number of peripheral issues that will be resolved tomorrow. A follow up email will be sent out to all members with a Date, Location, and Time for a ratification meeting as soon as a hall is confirmed.
UPDATE: Union members approve contract.
Unite Here Local 26 holds a vote at the Hynes this afternoon on a possible contract reached with the Marriott chain for workers at seven Boston hotels.
The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to support 1,500 striking members of Unite Local 26 in their action against local Marriott hotels, which include the Westin and the Ritz-Carlton. Every councilor rose to voice support for the workers at what they said was one of the world's most profitable hotel chains, with a corporate "core values" statement that includes treating workers well.
Craig Caplan took in the picket line outside the Ritz-Carlton where striking members of Unite Here protested the decision of their alleged union brothers on the Yankees to cross the line and stay there.
Boston Magazine reports that the Yankees, up here for their first ALDS game, didn't let a picket line stop them from checking into the Ritz Carlton today, even though the players, at least, are all themselves union members.
Unite Here Local 26 reports that workers at Boston Marriott hotels voted today to authorize the union's bargaining committee to call a strike. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Massachusetts companies cannot enforce Massachusetts non-compete contract clauses on employees in states that bar non-compete agreements, such as California. Read more.
Michael Keogh shows us the scene outside the National Grid tank off Victory Road around 8 a.m. NBC Boston reports so many showed up they blocked traffic on a nearby Expressway off ramp.
The Boston Business Journal reports Mayor Walsh had something to do with the health center's decision to rescind layoffs announced Thursday, although it was not clear exactly what.
Workers who were terminated mid-day yesterday at the Whittier Street Health Center yesterday rallied with SEIU members, residents and a number of elected officials outside the Tremont Street facility this morning. Read more.
Cat Metscher, who lives on one of the higher floors of Avalon North Station, spotted a pair of window washers outside her window this morning (what, you were expecting another turkey?).
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