Labor & Workers
Labor unions, workers' rights, and employment
Assessing the claims of anti-minimum wage lobbyists
When our elected representatives allow themselves to be deceived by the self serving claims of lobbying organizations like the NFIB at the cost of the people they represent, they need to be held accountable.
As General Assembly convenes, nursing home workers rally for safe staffing and fair wages
"The General Assembly's failure to pass this legislation has perpetuated a racist system of poverty wages and unsafe conditions for a workforce that is disproportionately immigrant women of color."
Workers at Carvalho Grove nursing home in Fall River picket for hazard pay during Covid outbreak
"All we want is to be treated fairly and to be able to take care of our residents and our families safely. Frontline caregivers have scarified a lot throughout this horrible pandemic - we need our employer to give us the respect and the dignity we deserve by compensating us with fair hazard pay."
Press Release: More school bus workers join Teamsters Local 251
“These workers safely transport our most precious cargo, our children, to school every school day," said Matt Taibi, Secretary-Treasurer of Local 251.
State lawmakers send letter urging Lifespan to do right by frontline hospital workers and support staff
"If Lifespan is truly committed to investing in their “talented and dedicated employees”, as stated on the company website, then providing hazard pay to our frontline hospital workers and support staff should not be an issue." Six state...
Lifespan continues to deny hazard pay to frontline workers, rewards managers
"Lifespan should know better, and Dr. Babineau should be ashamed of playing favorites with federal stimulus money." Lifespan continues to refuse hazard pay for frontline hospital workers during the COVID pandemic, but this week awarded a...
Hotel workers in Providence rally to guarantee their jobs after the pandemic
"I don't know what my family will do if I don't get my job back once this is all over," said hotel worker Angelique Meas. "This pandemic has been stressful enough as it is. We shouldn't have to worry about if we'll get our jobs back too....
Bannister Nursing Home supporters and caregivers hold march for safe staffing and fair wages
"If you want a better nursing home, if you want your nursing home to grow and for us to recommend people, please, safe staffing!" said Bannister CNA Tenah Nimmo-Powell to Bannister management. "And a decent raise." About three dozen care...
Bannister Nursing Home caregivers begin 3-day strike to demand safe staffing and better wages
"They call us heroes. They call us heroes so we need heroes pay. Don't call us heroes and treat us like dirt." "I work in supplies. I'm a CNA but I work in supplies and transportation," Tenah Nimmo-Powell told me outside the Bannister Ce...
RI's first unionized coffee shop needs your support to become worker-owned
"We, the cafe workers, believe a new worker-owned business model will benefit and inspire the communities we serve and the communities we represent." Last week staff of a popular Providence, Rhode Island cafe, White Electric Coffee, secu...