Community Labor United, [CLU] the Greater Boston Labor Council’s sister organization is standing strong with the Boston Building Trades Council in its struggle with the Marriot Copley and Host Hotels. A major renovation of the Hotel’s 1,100 rooms is underway utilizing a contractor who has hired a largely out of state workforce receiving sub-standard wages and no benefits. For more photos, click here.

The Greater Boston Labor Council is very proud to announce that we have brought the Worker Centers at MassCOSH (the Mass Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health) and the Chelsea Collaborative into the official house of labor. 

Over 300 union members and protesters at Occupy Boston joined forces on October 13, 2011 to demand good jobs and protest the abuses of Wall Street. Rich Rogers, Executive Secretary Treasurer of the Greater Boston Labor Council, AFL-CIO opened up the program with Darlene Lombos, the Executive Director of Community Labor United.