Dear Neighbor,
I’m grateful for the opportunity to serve the people of Medford, Somerville, Winchester and Cambridge as state senator.
This website is one of many ways I try to stay in touch. Of course, you’re also welcome to call, email, or visit my staff and me at the State House, or make an appointment to get together in the district.
Dear Neighbor,
I am Senate chair of the Labor and Workforce Development Committee and the Committee on Elder Affairs. Each of those committees produced a major bill this session which passed the legislature and was signed, or is about to be signed, into law.
In an earlier newsletter, I wrote about the Labor Committee's wage transparency law.
The second bill, about long-term care facilities for older people and people with disabilities, hadn’t passed by the time formal sessions ended on July 31. In the informal sessions that continue after that, any one legislator could object and stop the bill. Despite that, I am happy and relieved to be able to report that the long-term care bill passed the legislature last Thursday.
Dear Neighbor,
WHAT DOES LABOR WANT?
Samuel Gompers was the first president of the AFL-CIO, serving for almost 40 years.
He once gave a very long speech about "What Does Labor Want?" but he also gave a short summary:
"What does labor want? We want more school houses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more constant work and less crime; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures."
A broad view of the labor movement's goals! It reminds me of Bread and Roses!
