2008-08-26
Working RI Proud Sponsor of Labor Day Weekend WaterFire
, Working RI is the proud sponsor of WaterFire this Labor Day weekend. This year's WaterFire will be held on Saturday, August 30, 2008. Unions have improved the quality of life for all working people: Child Labor Laws Social Security Overtime Pay Minimum Wage Health Insurance Unemployment Insurance Workers' Compensation Paid Vacations Pension Plans Learn more about the Labor Movement - watch LaborVision each week on Statewide Interconnect B Channel 14 every Tuesday @ 7pm, Thursday @8pm and Saturday at 5pm. Also, join Working ...


2008-08-18
Labor History Society sets awards dinner
PROVIDENCE –– Scott Malloy knows that times are tough for organized labor in Rhode Island. Membership numbers are down. The General Assembly recently changed state law to reduce retiree health bene ...

2008-07-24
RI Council 94, AFSCME Introduces New Website
AFSCME (American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees) Council 94, one of the largest unions in Rhode Island, unveiled a new and improved website today. To visit the site, go to: ht ...

2008-07-24
The Union Wage Advantage for Low-Wage Workers
For more information, please visit: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/reports/the-union-wage-advantage-for-low-wage-workers/ ...

2008-07-24
Speaker Pelosi in R.I.: ‘Things can be different’
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House, appeared before a cheering crowd of nearly 100 people in a steamy union hall yesterday to denounce the “record of failure” of the Bush administration and promi ...

2008-06-09
Labor able to wield political influence far beyond its membership
Rhode Island’s labor unions are losing members faster than they can add them. But organized labor continues to have a powerful voice in state politics, due in part to a web of creative alliances t ...

2008-06-09
R.I. labor guru George Nee cut his teeth on grape boycott and caught the union bug
He is a onetime college dropout, a former bodyguard, a shrewd political strategist and the face of Rhode Island’s labor movement. George Nee, the AFL-CIO of Rhode Island’s secretary-treasurer, may ...

2008-06-04
A better budget proposal
by Robert A. Walsh, Jr. There is agreement about the parameters of Rhode Island’s budget crisis. After updated revenue estimates, the projected deficit in fiscal 2009 is now $434 mill ...

2008-05-23
Union launches TV ad, accuses governor of 'recycling his cronies'
By Steve Peoples PROVIDENCE –– Rhode Island’s largest state employees union has launched a television advertising campaign attacking Governor Cariceri for “recycling his cronies into high-paying jo ...

2008-05-05
'We're fired up, and we can't take it'
on 05-03-2008 04:34 By JIM BARON PROVIDENCE — After snarling Friday rush hour traffic in downtown Providence with a “Unity March” from the Westin Hotel to the Statehouse, a coalition of labor ...

2008-05-05
Union workers rally for respect at Rhode Island’s State House
01:00 AM EDT on Saturday, May 3, 2008 By JENNIFER D. JORDAN and SCOTT MacKAY Journal Staff Writers Retired Providence police officer Kerry O’Mara carries the American flag in yesterday’s r ...

 

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