Plant Relocation - Senator Pacheco
Requires companies that close plants in Massachusetts to compensate their employees.

Majority Authorization - Senator O'Leary/Representative DeLeo
Establishes recognition of a union under Chapter 150E and 150A if a majority of employees sign cards, petitions or other written evidence in support of said union.

Protecting Employees - Senator Pacheco
Requires contractors to hire its workforce from the existing pool of workers when a state service is privatized.

Define Member Contribution - Senator Tolman
Raise to $45,000 the salary of public employees prior to their paying the 2% extra towards their pension and then indexing this figure to inflation.

Regulating Outsourcing - Senator Hart
Regulate the Commonwealth's contracting with companies that outsource state work.

Minimum Fair Wages and Restoring Overtime - Senator Hart
Restores overtime pay eligibility to those workers who had it stripped from them as a result of the current presidential administration's new overtime regulations.

Workforce Solutions Act - Senator McGee / Representative Harkins
Complex, extensive bill that seeks to expand funding and structure toward developing numerous programs for continued education and training of Massachusetts workers.

House Bills

Edward Cohen Plaque - Representative Steven Walsh
Establishes a plaque in the Statehouse for the President of the Massachusetts AFL who was assassinated while waiting to see the Governor

To Ensure Quality Appointments - Representative Koczera
Provides for the consent of the Governor's Council for the appointments to the Civil Service and Labor Relation Commission.

Indexing the Minimum Wage - Representative Marzilli
Beginning January 1, 2006 raises the minimum wage to $7.50, January 1, 2007 raises the minimum wage to $8.25 and every January 1^st beginning in 2008 the minimum wage would be indexed to inflation.

New Families Trust Fund - Representative Paulsen
Establishes a fund, administered by the state, to provide up to twelve weeks paid leave for the birth or adoption of a baby.

Workers Compensation - Representative Martin Walsh
Would restore the 2/3 benefit paid to injured workers in the Commonwealth as well as increases payments to medical providers to ensure treatment of injured workers.

Proper Expenditure of and Accounting for State Funds - Rep. Martin Walsh
Ensures proper expenditures of and accounting for monies appropriated, spent, reimbursed, or granted by the Commonwealth for the purchase of foods and services, the performance of public works, or the provision of services on behalf of the Commonwealth.