BOSTON – The National Labor Relations Board on Monday sought a temporary restraining order against several labor unions which it said are orchestrating a campaign to harass area hotels currently housing out-of-town Verizon strikebreakers.
About 39,000 union workers walked off their Verizon jobs in mid-April after a series of failed contract negotiations with the local wireline telephone service provider. The workers handle landline, cable television and Internet access systems in nine Eastern states, including all of southern New England.
BOSTON – As a federal investigation continues to probe whether Boston has adequately responded to reported racial incidents in Boston Latin School, student activists have once again posted a video online over the issue, claiming that the climate hasn't improved.
In the video, which follows one posted over the winter that raised public awareness on the topic, the activist group that calls itself Black Leaders Aspiring for Change and Knowledge at BLS singles out the exam school's leader, Headmaster Lynn Mooney Teta. The group claims that Teta has failed to attend lunchtime conversations regarding race and that the administration has never mentioned the group's campaign during school assemblies on the subject:
