LABOR

After the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 448, voted to strike this past weekend, the union and management reached a tentative agreement. On Tuesday the union voted to ratify a three-year contract.

The Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 448 in Springfield, Massachusetts said it plans to hold a vote Saturday on whether to strike. Negotiations with DGR broke down after the union rejected a contract proposal on Tuesday.

About two years after workers at Trader Joe's in Hadley, Massachusetts, became the first of the grocery chain's stores to unionize, some employees there are now looking to decertify the union representing them

This comes after push from local lawmakers to launch an investigation into Pioneer Valley Health and Rehabilitation.

State Senator Jake Oliveira and State Representative Dan Carey said they have heard complains about unpaid workers and unsanitary conditions at Pioneer Valley Health and Rehabilitation.

Starting this month Massachusetts is offering the state exam to certify nursing assistants in Spanish, Chinese as well as in English. Advocates for immigrants are also asking for more accessible English.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell on Tuesday endorsed a labor-backed ballot question that would let on-demand transportation drivers organize and collectively bargain.

Connecticut Public announced it is laying off four full-time and several temporary employees. The public broadcaster said in a statement that expenses "have grown at rates that have exceeded revenues for the last few years."

Uber hails the "new operating model," as an industry-backed ballot question campaign ends.

An "overwhelming" number of unionized faculty and staff voted no confidence in top administrators Michelle Shutt and Charles Jordan. That's after what the union calls a "scathing" and previously unreleased report from consultants hired to observe diversity and equity matter on campus.