The Heights

BC Facilities Workers Rally Again as Contract Talks Continue

Carina Murphy • June 1, 2025

Boston College facilities workers rallied for higher wages and free skills training as union contract talks continue, with a potential strike looming if no agreement is reached by June 30.

BC Community Rallies for Fair Wages, Expanded Training for Facilities Workers

Annika Engelbrecht • May 8, 2025

Employees, students, faculty, and community members gathered across from St. Ignatius Church Wednesday afternoon to call on Boston College to raise wages and increase training funds for facilities workers amid ongoing contract negotiations.

Newton Parents Demonstrate at City Hall Amid NTA Strike Rumors

Genevieve Morrison • January 18, 2024

Newton Public Schools parents gathered in front of Newton City Hall to advocate for fair teacher contracts amid rumors of a teacher strike.

BC Graduate Employees Union Rallies For Better Working Conditions

Karyl Clifford • November 6, 2022

Members of the Boston College Graduate Employees Union (BCGEU) gathered on the lawn outside of St. Ignatius, hoisting signs plastered with phrases including “remind BC workers rights are Catholic values” and “BC works hard because graduate students do.”

Politicians Call for Greater Sanctions, Humanitarian Aid at Newton Rally for Ukraine

Victor Stefanescu • March 27, 2022

“I think it's important to understand that everyone’s lives are impacted—that it's not somebody else's world,” Kissin said. “The whole free world needs to step up.”

Bernie Sanders Speaks at Boston Common Rally

Kaylie Ramirez • March 2, 2020

The total attendance for the rally was around 13,000. Sanders hit on all of his major policy proposals, including Medicare for All, the senator’s signature plan to establish a single-payer health care system in the United States.

Boston Socialist Alternative Organizes Rally for Bernie Sanders

Grace Yang • February 23, 2020

The Boston Socialist Alternative held the Boston Rally and March for Bernie on Saturday. The event was organized the event in the hopes to energize and gather support for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

Union Stages ‘Work-In’ at Hillside, Calls for BC to Drop Appeal

Cole Dady • December 12, 2017

A number of supporters of the union organized to do their work, displaying signs on the back of their chairs that read “I’m working on …” followed by their subject matter.

BC Students and Hundreds of Others Attend ‘Fight Supremacy 2.0’

Isabel Fenoglio • November 20, 2017

On Saturday, several members of the BC community joined hundreds of Bostonians in a counter protest similar to one that occurred in August.

‘Eagle-Eyed’: Black Lives Matter Signs Vandalism and ‘Silence Is Still Violence’ March

Alec Greaney • October 27, 2017

This story starts 84 years ago, when Casper Augustus Ferguson began attending and eventually graduated from BC. He was miserable.

March for Science Draws Thousands to the Common

Abigail McHugh • April 23, 2017

On Saturday, thousands of Bostonians filled the Common to attend the Boston March for Science, and highlight the importance of sharing and furthering scientific discoveries in the modern age.

Sanders and Warren Continue Revolution at Boston Rally

Leo Confalone • April 1, 2017

1,600 Bostonians packed into the Orpheum Theatre on Friday night to attend the Our Revolution Boston Rally. Both Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren spoke at the rally about the need for continued change in America.