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2008-06-09

Labor able to wield political influence far beyond its membership

Providence, Rhode Island, 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 that include the state Democratic Party, environmental groups such as the Sierra Club and progressive social organizations such as Marriage Equality Rhode Island. The alliances expand labor’s forces as membership dips to its lowest point in more than a half-century. They help improve the image of unions among an increasingly critical public. ...

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 ...

2008-04-24
Public employees not public enemies
We are not the enemy. We do not need to be “broken.” The vast majority of us go to work every day in your community. We work for you. We answer and respond to your 911 calls, we plow your streets and ...

2008-04-11
Private-employee contracts come under Senate microscope
By Katherine Gregg Journal State House Bureau Senate President Joseph Montalbano attends a news conference yesterday to announce a legislative package resulting from an investigation into the s ...

2008-03-07
Unslanting the pension controversy
ROBERT WALSH Deputy Editorial-Pages Editor Edward Achorn seems so intent upon continuing his vendetta against public-employee unions generally, and public-employee benefits specifically, that he i ...

2008-02-22
Energy projects could jolt R.I. back to life
CHRIS WILHITE GEORGE NEE AT A TIME when the U.S. and Rhode Island economies are rapidly losing manufacturing jobs, renewable-energy manufacturing and energy-efficiency strategies could revitalize ...

2008-02-11
Handy, Moura to submit bill to rebalance tax system, narrow budget deficit
STATE HOUSE – Rep. Arthur Handy and Sen. Paul E. Moura, flanked by advocates from the Campaign for Rhode Island’s Priorities, today offered a plan to rebalance Rhode Island’s tax structure to give rel ...

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