Labor & Workers
Labor unions, workers' rights, and employment
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 Island in January of this year. This is a new model of democratically owned business where the workers are the owners....
Workers Cooperative Academy graduates their second class
On Saturday, the Workers Cooperative Academy graduated its second class in a short ceremony held at Navigant Credit Union in Central Falls. 19 people graduated the class, and may be soon starting new cooperative businesses in Rhode Islan...
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 in research and teaching positions have voted in favor of union representation. The American Arbitration Association...
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 on 391 Charles Street Saturday afternoon. The rally is part of a national coordinated effort by the Student/Farmworker Allian...
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 their intent to hold a union election supervised by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) in the fall, setting the stage fo...
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 educate and support students with Autism reached a contract deal with Groden Network management. "We are glad to have reac...
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...