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Labor groups urge presumptions for disease, expanded line-of-duty death benefits for Massachusetts public employees
Summary
Massachusetts AFL-CIO and union representatives told the Joint Committee on Public Service they support multiple bills creating presumptions for firefighter cancers, infectious disease and Parkinson’s disease and expanding line-of-duty death benefits to non-public-safety workers.
The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony from labor leaders and union representatives supporting a package of bills that would create presumptions tying certain diseases to firefighting and extend line-of-duty death benefits to non-public-safety public employees.
Kevin Brusso, secretary-treasurer of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO and co-chair of its public sector task force, told the committee that unions back bills creating presumptions that cancers, infectious diseases and Parkinson’s disease…
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