Healthcare workers picket for living wages and patient care at Blackstone Valley Community Health Center
October 31, 2019

Healthcare workers picket for living wages and patient care at Blackstone Valley Community Health Center

Staff at Blackstone Valley Community Health Care (BVCHC) held an informational picket today in Central Falls to...

Central Falls celebrates first co-op established in Rhode Island under new enabling legislation
October 31, 2019

Central Falls celebrates first co-op established in Rhode Island under new enabling legislation

Healthy Planet Cleaning Co-Op (HPCC) was co-founded in May, 2018, incorporated  under new legislation enacted in Rhode...

Workers Cooperative Academy graduates their second class
October 31, 2019

Workers Cooperative Academy graduates their second class

On Saturday, the Workers Cooperative Academy graduated its second class in a short ceremony held at Navigant...

Graduate teaching and research assistants at Brown vote to unionize
November 23, 2018

Graduate teaching and research assistants at Brown vote to unionize

After a four-day secret ballot election that culminated on Monday, Nov. 19, eligible Brown University graduate students...

RI NOW on the continuing need for Sexual Harassment Commission
October 31, 2019

RI NOW on the continuing need for Sexual Harassment Commission

Throughout 2018 sexual harassment has dominated public discourse, both nationally and here in our state. This is...

Representative Amore calls for action on sexual harassment legislation to begin the 2019 session
October 31, 2019

Representative Amore calls for action on sexual harassment legislation to begin the 2019 session

Representative Gregg Amore (Democrat, District 65, East Providence) is requesting that the issues brought forth by the...

Blazejewski to prefile legislation tackling sexual and discriminatory harassment at the General Assembly
October 31, 2019

Blazejewski to prefile legislation tackling sexual and discriminatory harassment at the General Assembly

Representative Christopher Blazejewski (Democrat, District 2, Providence) plans to prefile legislation ahead of the 2019 legislative session...

Advocates for the Fair Food Program want you to Boycott Wendy’s and stop the sexual exploitation of vulnerable workers
October 27, 2018

Advocates for the Fair Food Program want you to Boycott Wendy’s and stop the sexual exploitation of vulnerable workers

Brown University students and Providence community members held a rally in the pouring rain outside the Wendy’s...

Brown Grad Employees to file petition for union elections
October 12, 2018

Brown Grad Employees to file petition for union elections

From a press release: Graduate employees at Brown University have given official notice to the university of...

Groden Center staff reach tentative agreement with management
October 10, 2018

Groden Center staff reach tentative agreement with management

[From a press release] After months of negotiating and two strikes, Behavioral Specialists and Clerical Staff, who...

Groden Center educators still on strike – Day Two
October 31, 2019

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...

Elorza calls for swift end to bus strike, responds to ACLU letter
October 3, 2018

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...

Groden Center educators on strike
October 31, 2019

Groden Center educators on strike

Educators at the Groden Center schools in Providence and Coventry went on strike Tuesday in protest of...

Providence school bus drivers on strike
September 28, 2018

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...

Department of Labor holds a listening session on the overtime rule in Providence
September 25, 2018

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”...

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