Underage and Unprotected: How a migrant teen tried to juggle going to high school and working overnights at a seafood processor.
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Posted inArticle, Business, Labor
Underage and Unprotected: Migrant teens worked in risky jobs in New Bedford seafood processing plants
The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating possible violations of child labor, overtime pay, and anti-retaliation laws at two processors and one Rhode Island-based staffing agency
Posted inArticle, Business, Health
New Cannabis Control Commission chair on the future of recreational marijuana in Rhode Island
Over a year after recreational marijuana was legalized in Rhode Island, three people have finally been appointed to the state’s newly formed Cannabis Control Commission, which is responsible for overseeing the regulation, licensing and control of adult use and medical cannabis in the Ocean State. In July the commission began holding listening sessions for members of the public to share what they want to see in rules and regulations around marijuana. Morning Host Luis Hernandez spoke this week with the commission’s chair, Kimberly Ahern.
Posted inArticle, Business, Education, Politics
How will Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action, LGBTQ protections affect Rhode Island?
Steven Brown of the Rhode Island ACLU on two of the several big decisions made this week by the country’s highest court.
Posted inArticle, Business, Environment, South Coast Bureau
New Bedford longshoremen’s union extends protest against offshore wind developer
The protest has already stalled construction for five days on the nation’s first major offshore wind farm.
Posted inArticle, Business, Environment, South Coast Bureau
Construction halts on Vineyard Wind as longshoremen protest lack of local workers on jobsite
Assembly work for the nation’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm shut down today in New Bedford because of a protest over diversity and local hiring on the job site.
Posted inArticle, Business, South Coast Bureau
Immigrants fired for protesting win big settlement from New Bedford tire recycler
The nearly $1 million concession by Bob’s Tire could have ripple effects in other workplaces where undocumented immigrants quietly endure harsh conditions.
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New Bedford seafood plant follows through on mass termination of immigrant workers
Eastern Fisheries, one of America’s largest seafood suppliers, has effectively fired 100 processing workers in New Bedford by requiring them to reapply for their jobs with verified social security numbers. Many of the workers are Central American immigrants who have worked for years at Eastern Fisheries under temporary contracts through a pair of local employment […]
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‘Clear vengeance’: Workers threatened with termination at New Bedford seafood plant
Eastern Fisheries, one of New Bedford’s largest seafood processing operations, has notified as many as 200 workers that the company plans to fire them by terminating their contract with local temp services that placed them in Eastern Fisheries’ seafood processing plants in New Bedford. The termination notices, which several workers shared with The Public’s Radio, […]
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New Bedford’s last mass transit link to Boston closes in April
DATTCO announced it will stop running buses to Massachusetts’ South Coast on April 16, leaving carless commuters without a direct ride to Boston until the MBTA’s long-awaited South Coast Rail opens next winter.