Click here for more details on each bill on the Massachusetts AFL-CIO's 2011-2012 Priority Legislation.
An Act Updating and Streamlining the Employment Agency Law: Provides temporary workers with basic information about the job they are being hired for to ensure their safety and modernizes and streamlines regulations for temporary employment agencies.
Middle Skills Solutions Act: Establishes a middle skills council and regional skills academies to address the lingering skills gap that exists between the skills of the workforce and the jobs that need to be filled.
An Act to Invest in Our Communities: Raises substantial revenues from those who can most afford it by asking more in terms of revenue generation from high income households and investors who received large windfalls from both the establishment and the extension of the “Bush Tax Cuts” in order to fund essential public services.
An Act Relative to Improving Quality in Early Education and Care Through Center Child Care Providers: Improves the quality of early education and care by providing for collective bargaining between workers at early childhood education and child care centers and the Commonwealth about such matters as professional development and training, conditions affecting recruitment and retention, career ladders and rates of subsidy and reimbursement in state subsidized centers.
An Act Relative to Patient Safety: Would require the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to develop and implement limits on the number of hospital patients a Registered Nurse is forced to care for at one time in Massachusetts’ hospitals. The limits would be based on scientific research and testimony from public hearings.
