Senate President Karen Spilka plans to announce Thursday an early training and childcare proposal throughout a tour of a childcare heart in Malden, in accordance with an occasion advisory.
Spilka and Sen. Jason Lewis, who co-chairs the Legislature’s Education Committee, are scheduled to tour the Action for Boston Community Development childcare heart in Malden alongside ABCD CEO Amy O’Leary, the advisory mentioned.
Spilka and Lewis will announce through the go to the Senate’s “next steps to transform Massachusetts’ early education and care system. They will be joined by several Senators, including members of the Joint Committee on Education,” the advisory mentioned.
“The Senate President and members will hold a press conference and take questions from members of the media, followed by a tour of the facility that is open to press,” the advisory mentioned.
— Chris Van Buskirk
Museum employees strike at Mass MoCA
Unionized employees on the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art went on strike Wednesday after no settlement was reached with the museum on wages.
Carrying indicators reminiscent of “Living Artists Living Wages” and “Our Power is in Our Unity,” the employees picketed outdoors of the North Adams museum, generally known as MASS MoCA.
The workers’ union is a part of United Auto Workers Local 2110 and represents about 120 full- and part-time employees, together with curators, educators, administrative workers, custodians, workers in customer providers and others.
In 2022, employees went on a one-day strike. An settlement was reached on a primary contract that allowed them to reopen the settlement in October 2023 to barter additional wage will increase. Negotiations on the wage reopener have been ongoing for 4 months however no settlement has been reached, the union mentioned.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”