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A potential strike by 12,500 janitors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has been avoided, thanks to a tentative agreement between the union and cleaning contractors.

A threatened strike by 12,500 janitors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island has been averted. The union representing the contracted cleaners reached a tentative agreement with an association of the region’s

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A union representing janitors an cleaners in Massachusetts and Rhode Island reached a tentative agreement with an association of the region’s largest cleaning contractors on Wednesday.

If the agreement is approved by workers, the 12,500 cleaners represented by SEIU 32BJ will get a roughly 20 percent wage increase, the largest amount the union has ever negotiated.

A threatened strike by 12,500 janitors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island was averted Wednesday.

Three days before the expiration date of a contract between the union representing 330 cleaners at Northeastern and the Maintenance Contractors of New England, or MCNE, the union wrapped up another week of bargaining and negotiations. If an agreement is not reached by Nov. 15, the union, which represents 12,000 janitors across Massachusetts and neighboring...

Ride-share drivers in Boston are advocating for a statewide ballot question to allow them to join a union, citing low wages and poor working conditions.

BOSTON — Personal care attendants did not legally have the ability to unionize in Massachusetts until 2006, when Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law a measure overhauling the industry. The

The union-backed study comes amid extended fight over whether gig drivers are contractors or employees of ride-hailing giants, and what they should be owed.