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ABOUT 100 YELLOW CORP. truck drivers based in Rhode Island have been laid off as part of the national company's bankruptcy filings. / AP PHOTO/CHARLIE RIEDEL

About 100 Yellow Corp. truckers in R.I. laid off as company...

PROVIDENCE – Approximately 100 local Yellow Corp. truck drivers are now out of a job as the national trucking company declared bankruptcy over the...
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL of Design and Teamsters Local 251 reached an agreement Tuesday on a new five-year contract. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

New 5-year agreement between RISD, Local 251 notes pay raises for...

PROVIDENCE – More than 60 union workers at the Rhode Island School of Design returned to work Wednesday after the arts college and Teamsters...
A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT has been reached on a new deal between the Rhode Island School of Design and Teamsters Local 251. The union is scheduled to vote on the proposal late Tuesday. / COURTESY JOEL YONG

Tentative agreement reached between RISD, Local 251

PROVIDENCE – There soon may be labor peace at the Rhode Island School of Design. The arts college announced late Monday that college officials and...
TEAMSTERS LOCAL 251 employees at the Rhode Island School of Design and RISD students stand on the picket line March 23 at the arts college during a one-day strike that day. RISD's union workers on Monday went on strike again after the latest contract negotiations stalled. / COURTESY JOEL YONG

RISD union employees on strike again after contract negotiations fail

PROVIDENCE – Two weeks after holding a one-day strike, union employees at the Rhode Island School of Design walked off the job again Monday...
TEAMSTERS LOCAL 251 members who are employees at the Rhode Island School of Design picket outside a campus building Thursday morning. / PBN PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Union employees at RISD go on strike

PROVIDENCE – More than 60 union employees at the Rhode Island School of Design walked off the job Thursday morning, with some picketing outside...
TEAMSTERS LOCAL 251 and First Student Inc. have reached a new four-year contract agreement for Providence school bus drivers.

Teamsters Local 251 bus drivers, First Student reach new agreement, avoid...

PROVIDENCE – A new contract agreement has been reached between the local union that represents school bus drivers in the city and First Student...

Layoff notice rescinded after Northeast Transportation Services, union reach deal

PAWTUCKET – Northeast Transportation Services LLC will remain a contractor for DHL Express in Pawtucket, after reaching a labor agreement with its unionized workers. South-Carolina-based...
TRAINING DAYS: Brown University medical students Anthony Formicola, left, and Thi My Linh Tran talk while on duty on the labor and delivery floor at Care New England Health System’s Women & Infants Hospital in Providence.  / COURTESY CARE NEW ENGLAND HEALTH SYSTEM/RYAN PICKERING

Brown’s prescription: Will latest failed merger end the university’s bid for...

The dream, as Brown University leaders described it, included Providence’s Jewelry District filled with biotech companies spun off from discoveries made by an “integrated...
MEMBERS OF the United Food and Commercial Workers Local Union 328 hold a one-day strike outside the Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center in Portsmouth last June to protest what union members said was an unfair labor practice. Federal labor data indicates union membership among Rhode Island's workforce declined in 2021. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

Pandemic causing shifts in R.I. union membership

Rhode Island remains one of the most unionized states in the country, but the percentage of union members among its workforce dropped from 17.8%...

R.I. Hospital, Teamsters union agree to 5-year contract agreement

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island Hospital and Teamsters Local 251 have reached a five-year contract agreement that became effective April 1, the hospital announced. According to...
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