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In the aftermath of 9-11, a boom in demand for American flag lapel pins was easy to anticipate. Richard McIntyre , an economics professor at the University of Rhode Island, knows of a fellow American who tried to win the manufacturing job for these pins...
From the United Food and Commercial Workers , regarding an event tomorrow: Providence, R.I.—Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), grocery workers and community members will gather at the Providence PriceRite store on 325 Valley...
Yesterday, I reported on how all six city unions plan to picket this evening's young professionals' fundraiser for Providence Mayor David Cicilline. Today, Matt, a member of the host committee for the event, has a post explaining why he won't...
UPDATE: The city responds. Here's a comment from Rich Kerbel, Cicilline's director of administration, responding to the union concerns: "While the administrator of the City’s health plan will change, the coverage itself will remain the same...
In separate segments, Colonel Brendan Doherty of the Rhode Island State Police and Dennis Grilli, executive director of AFSCME's Council 94 , are the guests this week on WPRI/WNAC-TV's Newsmakers . Tim White fills in as host for the vacationing...
Here's the word from the Gov: Governor Donald L. Carcieri today issued an Executive Order authorizing that all employees represented by unions that have not ratified the co-share and plan design changes outlined in the Memorandum of Settlement shall...
This just in: The final vote of the election previewed today by Steve Peoples was 2870 (against) to 196 (for). In a statement, executive director Dennis Grilli says he will be in touch with the state about renewing negotiations to seek a new proposed...
Writing in this week's Phoenix, Steven Stycos updates the story of Alexandra Svoboda , the young IWW member who was seriously hurt during an August 2007 demonstration in North Providence. Attorney General Patrick Lynch plans to investigate the incident...
Governor Carcieri might have precluded the stormy reaction to his executive order on immigration if he had initially talked with some of the people on his new oversight panel . Instead, we got a lot of distracting side battles at a time when the state...
From the gov's office: Governor Donald L. Carcieri today issued the following response to a television advertisement being run by state employee unions . The attack ad specifically assails four state employees under the Governor’s authority: Deputy...
Labor activist Patrick Crowley, who's been on the warpath lately against Governor Carcieri (Pat, we suspect, would say it's the other way around), sends word of this rally : Community Activists, Organized Labor and Religious Leaders Will Join In Calling...
With various people and groups gearing up for Earth Day a week from tomorrow, the most interesting local effort may be plans by Local 99 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to dedicate its solar-powered union hall, which it bills as...
As I've written before , I think the ProJo's Ed Achorn writes a very good column. While N4N might not agree with everything he says, his writing is clean and elegant, imbued with a knowledge of history (and a love of baseball), and his weekly Tuesday...
Labor activist and rabble-rouser Patrick Crowley is live-blogging from the Take Back America 2008 , a progressive convention in Washington, DC. Pat sends word that he can also be heard on the radio .
Charlie Bakst follows up today on the Clinton-Cicilline contretemps of the last week: Did she in fact apologize? “Well, he and I talked it over.” Cicilline says he also received a phone call from Bill Clinton. The campaign’s treatment of Cicilline had...
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