Cambridge Hotels Face Allegations of Breaking Wage and Hours Laws
8 April 2014 - 2:17am | jadams
Cambridge, Mass. – Several former staff members of the Kendall Hotel and the Mary Prentiss Inn are alleging that their employer knowingly failed to pay overtime wages owed to them.
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LOCAL EDITION #11 - Audio Newscast Series by OMB and WMBR
6 April 2014 - 5:41pm | RadioView
This is number 11 in our ongoing series of local audio newscasts. “Local Edition,” the biweekly news program is sponsored by the WMBR Radio News Department and Open Media Boston.
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Gun Buyback Seen As One Tool in Ongoing Construction of Safer City
4 April 2014 - 11:33am | RadioView
BOSTON – One hundred and thirty six. That, according to Boston Police, was the number of guns turned in by the end of the first week of the city’s gun buyback program christened “Your Piece for Peace.” Sergeant Mike McCarthy of the Media Relations Department said in an email, “the BPD is very pleased with the program’s success so far.”
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Youth Homelessness On the Rise in Somerville
3 April 2014 - 4:06am | superuser
Somerville, Mass. - Youth homelessness is on the rise; at least 25 Somerville students are homeless. Some 13,000 students are homeless in Massachusetts, according to the state Department of Education.
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Unfair Hiring for People of Color and Women, Claims Boston Jobs Coalition
1 April 2014 - 3:40pm | jadams
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing – The luxury building developer Millennium Partners was slammed in a demonstration at Filene’s Basement in Downtown Boston on Monday for its claimed lack of adherence to local policy that sets hiring rates for city residents, people of color, and women.
Around 200 members and supporters of the Boston Jobs Coalition picketed the condominium development before moving onto Millennium’s office on Tremont St., calling on them to meet the Boston Residents Jobs Policy (BRJP) rules, and to make required affordable housing payments to the city.
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News in Brief: March 31, 2014
31 March 2014 - 11:28pm | jadams
SEIU – Cambridge College
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Cambridge Hotels Face Allegations of Breaking Wage and Hours Laws
8 April 2014 - 2:17am | jadams
Cambridge, Mass. – Several former staff members of the Kendall Hotel and the Mary Prentiss Inn are alleging that their employer knowingly failed to pay overtime wages owed to them.
Read more about Cambridge Hotels Face Allegations of Breaking Wage and Hours Laws
LOCAL EDITION #11 - Audio Newscast Series by OMB and WMBR
6 April 2014 - 5:41pm | RadioView
This is number 11 in our ongoing series of local audio newscasts. “Local Edition,” the biweekly news program is sponsored by the WMBR Radio News Department and Open Media Boston.
Read more about LOCAL EDITION #11 - Audio Newscast Series by OMB and WMBR
Gun Buyback Seen As One Tool in Ongoing Construction of Safer City
4 April 2014 - 11:33am | RadioView
BOSTON – One hundred and thirty six. That, according to Boston Police, was the number of guns turned in by the end of the first week of the city’s gun buyback program christened “Your Piece for Peace.” Sergeant Mike McCarthy of the Media Relations Department said in an email, “the BPD is very pleased with the program’s success so far.”
Read more about Gun Buyback Seen As One Tool in Ongoing Construction of Safer City
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h Homelessness On the Rise in Somerville
3 April 2014 - 4:06am | superuser
Somerville, Mass. - Youth homelessness is on the rise; at least 25 Somerville students are homeless. Some 13,000 students are homeless in Massachusetts, according to the state Department of Education.
Read more about Youth Homelessness On the Rise in Somerville
Unfair Hiring for People of Color and Women, Claims Boston Jobs Coalition
1 April 2014 - 3:40pm | jadams
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing – The luxury building developer Millennium Partners was slammed in a demonstration at Filene’s Basement in Downtown Boston on Monday for its claimed lack of adherence to local policy that sets hiring rates for city residents, people of color, and women.
Around 200 members and supporters of the Boston Jobs Coalition picketed the condominium development before moving onto Millennium’s office on Tremont St., calling on them to meet the Boston Residents Jobs Policy (BRJP) rules, and to make required affordable housing payments to the city.
Read more about Unfair Hiring for People of Color and Women, Claims Boston Jobs Coalition
News in Brief: March 31, 2014
31 March 2014 - 11:28pm | jadams
SEIU – Cambridge College
Read more about News in Brief: March 31, 2014