Tag: Patrick Crowley
ROBOTS RISING? Manufacturers mull employing tech as it gets smarter, cheaper
Enter igus Bearings Inc.’s newly opened facility in East Providence, and you’ll be met with the sounds of whirring and clangs typical of a...
Regional labor, energy leaders call for union-powered offshore wind advancements
PROVIDENCE – One day after South Fork Wind, the country's first large-scale offshore wind farm, opened off the coast of Long Island, green energy...
Report: R.I. pension overhaul increased employee attrition
PROVIDENCE – A new report by a Washington, D.C.-based think tank says reforms to the state’s retirement system instituted in 2011 have caused a...
PBN debuts 2024 Book of Lists
PROVIDENCE – More than 200 business and nonprofit representatives spent Thursday evening at the Graduate Providence networking with one another, as well as obtaining...
Work policies may need refresh after NLRB ruling
A recent National Labor Relations Board ruling may force employers of all sizes to rewrite their employee policy handbooks to meet a new legal...
AG: New wage theft law is pro-business, too
For more than four years Attorney General Peter F. Neronha sought to adjust an oversight in state law that he argues could have been...
A split over Alviti’s actions at RIPTA
Following R.I. Department of Transportation Director Peter Alviti’s controversial appointment as the R.I. Public Transit Authority’s board chairman, transit advocates are divided on whether...
R.I. offshore wind proponents optimistic despite SouthCoast financing troubles
A second Massachusetts wind farm developer has hit economic headwinds and decided to renege on its contracts. Could Rhode Island’s projects be next to...
R.I. jobs growth from offshore wind unclear
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee on Wednesday boasted of the jobs that will accompany the state's ambitious renewable energy goals, including new state...
Environmental, labor leaders lay out plans for advancing R.I. green economy
PROVIDENCE - Tackling ambitious climate change goals and an economy still being dragged down by the aftermath of a pandemic might seem overly ambitious.
But...
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