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The MIT Sloan School of Management gathered students, government officials and business leaders Friday to highlight a huge potential workforce that is often overlooked: people with criminal records.

Labor Dept. data for 17 firms show median of just 14% of jobs

With the nation having just celebrated Labor Day, it’s as exciting a time as any in recent memory to be a part of a union. Working people are seeing what the union difference is all about, and they want to be a part of it.

More than 230 workers at the Marriott Copley lost their jobs at the Copley Marriott last fall during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have partnered with Unite Here Local 26 to call for a boycott and demand that the Marriott reinstate its former employees.

Massachusetts workers began the new year with extended family leave benefits and an increase in the minimum wage.

Enforcing requirements that people of color work on construction jobs is made more difficult by building trades unions’ refusal to keep or share data on the race of their members.

Workers at Boston’s Logan International Airport rallied with elected officials on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to protest wage theft from a city contractor as well as the federal government shutdown.

Dalida Rocha was appointed political director at the New England district of SEIU 32BJ, the largest property service workers union in the nation, with 163,000 members up and down the East Coast.

Hotel workers took part in coordinated strikes at Marriott hotels across the city Wednesday Oct. 3, as contract negotiations between the billion-dollar hotel chain and union members stall.

Hotel workers voted Sept. 12 to authorize a strike at eight Boston Marriott hotels, a move local union members are ready to make if demands for better pay and working conditions are not met.

Thirteen Whittier Street Health Center employees who were fired last Thursday were offered their positions back Sunday afternoon after they rallied in protest outside the clinic last Friday. Tuesday morning, the workers received emails notifying them they would be eligible to return to work Wednesday, the day they’re scheduled to vote on whether to join SEIU 1199, a local that organizes health care workers.