Labor & Workers
Labor unions, workers' rights, and employment
Groden Center educators still on strike - Day Two
UPDATE from SEIU: "Behavior specialists and other support staff, who provide education and other services to children with Autism at the Groden Center strike for third day. Unfortunately the Groden staff negotiating committee was not abl...
Elorza calls for swift end to bus strike, responds to ACLU letter
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza stood with School Superintendent Christopher Maher and about a dozen city and state elected officials and city staff to throw his political and moral authority behind an effort to end the First Student bus s...
Groden Center educators on strike
Educators at the Groden Center schools in Providence and Coventry went on strike Tuesday in protest of management’s unfair labor practices, to demand safer classrooms for their students, and living wages for staff. On Friday, September 2...
Providence school bus drivers on strike
Information about the City of Providence's response to the strike can be found by calling (401) 919-5271 or visiting the Providence Schools website. As negotiations between Teamsters Local 251 and First Student Inc once more reached a st...
Department of Labor holds a listening session on the overtime rule in Providence
"One of the many reasons reasons wages for American workers have stagnated is the "antiquated overtime threshold" said Douglas Hall, director of economic and fiscal policy the Economic Progress Institute. "Not only has the overtime thres...
Providence school bus drivers will strike on Thursday if no agreement is made with city
The following is the official statement from Teamsters Local 251 Principal Officer and Secretary-Treasurer Matt Taibi on the Providence First Student Strike: "In consideration for the hardship for the children and parents involved with P...
As NFL season kicks off, contract negotiations continue at Omni Providence Hotel
When the Houston Texans come to town to play the New England Patriots, as they are today, they stay in nice hotels. As the NFL season kicks off, Unite Here! Local 26 members who work as hotel housekeepers, front desk reception, bellmen,...
Interested in starting a Worker Cooperative? The Cooperative Academy can help
If you’ve never thought about starting a business chances are you know someone who has. It’s a common dream, to work for yourself, not someone else. There is actually another option: working with each other. In a worker cooperative, the...
Unite Here! Local 26 members and allies hold Labor Day picket outside the Omni Providence Hotel
"For a lot of our neighbors and friends Labor Day means having cookouts, doing back to school shopping, maybe go to the beach, but for us, it means it's time to fight," said UNITE HERE Local 26 organizer Jonah Zinn, addressing the crowd...
AFL-CIO's George Nee to be awarded World Peace Prize
For the first time a Rhode Island Labor leader will be honored with the World Peace Prize. The World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC) has announced that George Nee president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, will receive the prestigious p...