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In Rhode Island, 8,800 Will Lose Unemployment Aid on Jan. 1 Unless Congress Acts Now!

Wed, 12/14/2011 - 2:45pm

Last week, as part of a national day of action on unemployment and jobs sponsored by the AFL-CIO, the Rhode Island AFL-CIO joined with thousands of union members and community allies across the country to call on

 
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congress to reauthorize the unemployment insurance benefit program. The Rhode Island AFL-CIO and Working Rhode Island thanked our congressional delegation for their leadership and commitment to helping the unemployed who have been hit hardest by the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression and ask for their continued support.

Armand E. Sabitoni- Working Families Can Not Afford More Games

Fri, 07/15/2011 - 12:44pm

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

 

In the past several years there have been many disturbing trends that leave the American working person in a difficult situation. Political whining and posturing has taken the place of the “can do” attitude that has kept our country strong for over two hundred years. The American middle class has been quite patient with the sacrifices they have made during this last difficult and painful recession. We have been patient with the bailouts of Wall Street. We have been patient when their CEO’s raked in large bonuses after we saved their corporations. We have been patiently waiting for the economy to improve while filibustering and fighting have continued in Washington.

Patrick J. Quinn: Journal is anti-labor corporate stooge

Mon, 04/11/2011 - 10:27am

 

The Journal’s April 3 Commentary section was easily the crescendo of anti-worker, anti-union vitriol that has been building in the paper over the past few years, with no less than a half-dozen attacks on workers and their organizations. This reflects the joining of its corporate labor-relations policy and its editorial bias. 
 
The Journal’s attempt to characterize the current fiscal crises as the fault of unionized public-sector workers has no basis in reality. Schoolteachers, firefighters, nurses, police officers and sewage-treatment plant workers go to work every day to provide services to our communities — and somehow their retirement plans are to blame for the economic depression? 
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AFL-CIO Ad In Support of Wisconsin State Employees

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 3:07pm

From the Pawtucket Times: POLITICS AS USUAL Why workers need a weekly paycheck

Tue, 02/22/2011 - 9:56am

By Jim Baron

 

Sitting through a House Labor Committee meeting last week, I had a Popeye moment. After listening to as much garbage as I could take, I muttered under my breath, “That’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more.”

For several years now all we have been hearing about is the business sector boo-hooing about Rhode Island’s so-called hostile business climate. And for the same past few years we have watched the General Assembly, the governor’s office and other agencies of state government bending over backward to kiss the backsides of businesspeople and the wealthiest citizens of the state while at the same time whacking middle-class property tax payers, further beggaring the destitute and disabled and cutting off unionized workers’ benefits at the knees.

Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka On Tax Cut Deal

Tue, 12/07/2010 - 4:37pm

 


Two years ago, working Americans had high hopes that we would ultimately emerge from the deep, punishing financial debacle with a sharp focus on a fundamentally stronger, fairer and more balanced economy.  Today, that vision has dimmed.

New Report Shows RI Has 6th-Least Government Employees

Thu, 06/03/2010 - 1:32pm

A new report by the Center for Economic and Policy Research shows that, contrary to popular belief, Rhode Island has fewer government employees than 44 other states.  Last year, there were 53,185 non-federal public employees in Rhode Island, with 33,940 of them working for local governments and 19,245 working for the state.

Michael Sabitoni: Rhode Island owes Brown thanks for its building projects

Thu, 04/29/2010 - 12:16pm

  The Rhode Island economy is in dire straits. We have been mired in an extended recession, our unemployment rate hovers around 13 percent — one of the highest in America — and the state is dealing with the aftermath of horrific floods. Many people have lost their jobs, any health insurance they may have had and, in many other instances, their homes, too. The construction industry has been especially affected, with unemployment in this sector at a staggering 40 percent.

UFCW MEMBERS CELEBRATE NEW CONTRACT WITH STOP & SHOP

Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:06am

 (BOSTON, MA) – On March 7, thousands of Stop & Shop supermarket workers from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut ratified new contracts with Ahold, the Dutch-owned parent company.  Highlights of the agreements between the members of the United Food and Commercial Workers and Stop & Shop include:          

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