DC 35 Endorsed Candidates
Massachusetts Democratic Primary
Vote Tuesday, September 16, 2008!

US Senate - John Kerry

Plymouth County Treasurer - Tom O'Brien

Massachusetts State Senate

 4th Middlesex:  Ken Donnelly - Union Member
 2nd Suffolk:  Diane Wilkerson
 Worcester and Middlesex: Jennifer Flanagan
 2nd Worcester:  Doug Belanger - Union Member
 
Massachusetts House of Representatives

L&H Construction is the latest company to feel the heat of the Massachusetts Attorney General's office - and pay a significant price for violating state law.  The company has long made a home with the Boston Public Schools, and has been the source of ongoing friction between DC 35 and that department.  The company, according to the Attorney General, failed to pay the prevailing wage to 24 employees on a variety of projects around eastern Massachusetts, including the Patrick Lyndon School, the John Winthrop School, and the Martin Luther King, Jr.

One of Boston University's favorite vendors has been cited for widespread overtime violations, according to the Massachusetts Attorney General's office.  Wilder, whose trucks are frequently seen in Kenmore Square, is an employer of many immigrant workers who rarely come forward to complain about wages and working conditions.  The Fair Labor division of Attorney General Martha Coakley's office has been able to crack open a number of such exploitive situations and get justice for the workers.  The Attorney General's pres release follows: 

Attorney General Martha Coakley's office has issued an advisory on enforcement of the OSHA 10 requirement for public construction in Massachusetts.  See link below.

http://www.mass.gov/Cago/docs/Workplace/osha10_advisory.pdf

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