This International Workers’ Day, join the Greater Boston Labor Council, La Colaborativa, Greater Boston Building Trades Unions, and the Massachusetts AFL-CIO in standing with migrant workers, pushing back against the billionaire takeover, and demanding justice for all working people.
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Time: 5:30 PM
Location: 63 Sixth Street, Chelsea (at La Colaborativa)
This year, we’re not marching—but standing in solidarity with the workers who move our economy and power our communities. Instead, we’ll gather at La Colaborativa to celebrate the contributions of immigrants whose daily efforts strengthen this country.
Our new director, Natalicia Tracy, will be speaking at the event. We’re proud to have her lifting up the voices of workers and immigrants—don’t miss this chance to hear her speak alongside other powerful community and labor leaders.
Let's show up strong! We’d love to see our coalition partners, staff, and members there!
Sign our Petition to Support Working Parents and Childcare Providers
In Massachusetts, an unseen and underappreciated workforce cares for our children, while parents are at work. For years, families in our communities have relied on grandmothers, aunties, and other family members, as well as trusted friends and neighbors, to provide care close to home. Caretakers do not need a license to provide this informal, small-scale care–because of the important role FFN providers play, they can be paid via the state childcare voucher.
Supporting informal FFN care with voucher reimbursement is good policy–it helps ensure working parents can find trusted, culturally familiar care that is available when they need it, especially during early and late shifts when other options are not available. But under current voucher reimbursement rates, FFN providers receive only $10 to $24 per day they care for a child. And parents cannot easily split their voucher hours to cover all the care they need.
We are asking the Massachusetts legislature to pass H.542/S.341 An Act expanding access to family, friend, and neighbor-provided childcare, sponsored by Representative Marjorie Decker and Senator Sal DiDomenico. Sign our petition now to ask your Representative and Senator to cosponsor these bills, which will:
Raise FFN provider pay up to the state minimum wage to give parents more childcare options and stabilize the providers they know and trust.
Fix the childcare voucher so parents can use the full ten-hour daily value for the combination of formal and FFN care that works for their schedules.
Establish an FFN Advisory Council to promote quality-supportive policies, programs, and practices for FFN child care.
Sign our petition here to take action and support working families and childcare providers in our community.
20 Years of Building Power
Please consider a sponsorship to help support and build CLU's work. The generous support of all donors will be acknowledged in the event program video shown repeatedly throughout the event and on CLU’s website, newsletter and through social media. All sponsors will be invited to a smaller reception with the awardees prior to the start of the event.
