Union busting is disgusting, one read. Support the FEA. Actions speak louder than words.
About 150 teachers and educators from across the state gathered in support of the Falmouth Educators Association, whose members claim the Falmouth Public Schools administration is retaliating against one of its members for filing complaints against the district.
Tuesday s rally was hosted by the Massachusetts Teachers Association, which has joined with the Falmouth association in filing complaints against the district.
“We are here today to stand up for our union rights,” Caitlin Dugre, director of the Falmouth Educators’ Association, said Tuesday. “There has been a history this year in particular of the Falmouth administration retaliating against our membership as well as our leadership for conducting legal and totally acceptable union activity.”
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Worcester,
Mass. On May Day outside of St. Vincent Hospital here, there was a sing-along going on. It was the 55th day that the nurses, members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association, had been on strike at the hospital, and the sunny weather and blooming flowers meant morale was high.
Supporters, from local City Council member Khrystian King to the Worcester branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, as well as members of other unions like the Teamsters and IATSE, joined the nurses to celebrate the worker’s holiday and to demand that the hospital, as the thematically rewritten lyrics to one song went, “bring in more nurses to care in there!”
Campaign For New Tax On High Earners Touts Widespread Support
Seventy three percent of Massachusetts residents said they support adding a 4% surtax to the state s highest earners.
Photo by Pixabay/Public Domain. Illustration by Emily Judem/ WGBH News.
Nearly three quarters of Massachusetts residents support a new 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, according to a poll commissioned by the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
The results are being touted by a campaign to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund education and transportation projects. The public already strongly supports investments in transportation and public education and strongly supports the idea that the wealthiest among us should pay more to make those critical investments, said Andrew Farnitano, a spokesman for Raise Up Massachusetts, which wants a constitutional amendment allowing the tax to go before voters next year.
JFK middle school educator honored with civil rights award
Mareatha Wallace, a paraeducator, at JFK Middle School in Northampton. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Published: 5/5/2021 9:13:10 AM
NORTHAMPTON Mareatha Wallace, a paraeducator at JFK Middle School, has won the Louise Gaskins Lifetime Civil Rights Award from the Massachusetts Teachers Association.
The award is named after Gaskins, who is described on the association’s website as “a pioneer for the involvement of women and people of color in education,” and that nominees for the award should embody “the qualities of humility, leadership and tenacity that Louise Gaskins has brought wherever she has served.”
“I was really excited. But also kind of like why? It’s just what I do,” Wallace said of receiving the award. “I’m honored and humbled that my colleagues felt that I deserved this award but I guess I don’t do it for the award. I do it because it’s the right thing to do. And there’s never a wrong time to do
Monday s Other Top Stories
State closing mass vaccination sites: Massachusetts is closing four of the state s seven mass vaccination sites by June, including sites in Danvers, Foxborough, Natick and at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. Gov. Charlie Baker said Massachusetts is outpacing the rest of the country by leaps and bounds in COVID-19 vaccinations and will hit its goal of vaccinating 4.1 million people within weeks. About 1.2 million of those doses have been administered at the mass vaccination sites.
Long-awaited help available for North Shore restaurant, bar owners: Applications for the federal Restaurant Revitalization Fund, as part of the America Rescue Act, were set to be accepted as of noon on Monday through the Small Business Administration. The funds are available to any eligible establishment until all of the $28.6 billion in direct relief funds have been exhausted.