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By Julia Taliesin, Posted Feb 12, 2019 at 12:54 PM The Finance Committee had to move to the full Council Chambers to accommodate the 30 Royal Hospitality workers there to show support for keeping Royal Hospitality in Somerville. The plot of land Royal Hospitality Services, Inc. (RHSI) occupies [...]

DECEMBER 20, 2018 Projects must be held to safety standards Re “Toward a more perfect Union Square”: I’ve met with too many fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers who have lost loved ones from working on nonunion construction sites with employers who failed to comply with basic safety [...]

DECEMBER 20, 2018 Residents demand accountability from developers, City Hall The article “Toward a more perfect Union Square” (Page A1, Dec. 9) glosses over the reality that out-of-town developers are making enormous profits in Somerville and often doing little or nothing to benefit our [...]

On Monday of this week, members of Somerville Stands Together (SST) held a rally in Union Square, openly calling for the City of Somerville to require developer US2 to agree to a Community Benefits Agreement that includes a Project Labor Agreement, to make sure that, as they put it, Somerville [...]

Somerville, MA – Chanting “Somerville stands for affordable housing! Somerville stands for good, union jobs! Somerville stands together!” hundreds of residents, workers, and advocates with Somerville Stands Together converged on Union Square tonight to urge City Hall to stop standing up for [...]

Somerville—Somerville Stands Together joined by Ayanna Pressley, Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives, was at a rally in Union Square to support affordable homes, good jobs and responsible development in Union Square. This was the latest action by the broad coalition of [...]

Hundreds rallied in Somerville’s Union Square neighborhood on Monday in favor of a community benefits agreement that would aim to protect the interests of local workers and residents before a major redevelopment project gets underway. Advocates want the city to require developer US2 to [...]

Somerville, MA – Somerville Stands Together is celebrating the launch of talks between Somerville’s newly-elected Community Benefits Negotiation Committee and Union Square developers US2.  The committee consists of 15 residents,  elected by their neighbors, who will represent residents concerns [...]

Somerville Stands Together will be joined by Ayanna Pressley, Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives, at a rally in Union Square to support affordable homes, good jobs and responsible development in Union Square. This is the latest action by the broad coalition of community, [...]