274,652 Signatures Collected for Two Ballot Questions BOSTON – Workers, community members, faith leaders, and business supporters rallied today to celebrate the next step in the campaign to pass paid …
Press Release: Corporate Lobbyist Hypocrisy Cited by Fair Share Amendment Advocates
Companies Taking Millions in Public Benefits, CEOs Won’t Pay Their Fair Share BOSTON – As the state’s corporate lobbyists launch a legal attempt to deny the people of Massachusetts the …
News Coverage: $15 Minimum Wage Hearing
On Tuesday, hundreds of workers, community, faith, and labor leaders, business owners, and economic experts were at the State House for a legislative hearing on our bill to gradually raise the state’s …
News Coverage: Ballot Campaign Launches
This month, we’re launching our signature gathering effort to put paid family and medical leave and a $15 minimum wage on the November 2018 ballot. Here’s some of the press coverage of …
New tax means growth
Boston Herald letter to the editor: The Herald is right to observe that Raise Up Massachusetts is “going all in on the 2018 ballot” with campaigns to raise the minimum …
News Coverage: Campaign Launched for Paid Leave, $15 Minimum Wage Ballot Questions
On Monday, we launched our campaign to collect signatures to put paid family and medical leave and a $15 minimum wage on the November 2018 ballot. Here’s some of the press …
Raise Up Massachusetts Launches Campaign to Put Paid Leave, $15 Minimum Wage on the 2018 Ballot
BOSTON – Raise Up Massachusetts today announced the launch of a signature gathering campaign to put two questions on the November 2018 ballot: paid family medical leave and an increase in …
Taxes don’t make millionaires move
Commonwealth Magazine: MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATORS APPROVED the so-called Fair Share Amendment last week, setting the stage for it to appear on the 2018 statewide ballot, where voters will decide whether to …
Shirley Leung: Let’s not leave paid family leave up to a ballot initiative
Boston Globe: There is little common ground between supporters and opponents of paid family leave legislation, but this much they agree on: We can’t do this by ballot petition. That’s …
Lawmakers consider giving workers paid leave
Boston Globe: Three weeks after Bethany Fauteux gave birth to her son via C-section, she was back at work at a New Bedford preschool — chasing after toddlers and getting …