Tag: Unions
This looks like the start of a great time for labor...
The tight labor market in the U.S. is leading to a shift in the balance of power between labor and capital, giving more leverage...
Not all economists are corporate shills
The economics profession gets a lot of the blame for the increasing inequality in American society. Yet the career of Harvard University economist Martin...
Get workers in the boardroom
When legendary physicist Richard Feynman was called in to help solve the mystery of the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986, he didn’t use...
Is GA tipping scales toward labor?
Republican Rep. Brian C. Newberry thinks unions wield too much power in Rhode Island and worries the General Assembly, controlled by Democrats, will tip...
Unions, Stop & Shop reach tentative agreement Sunday
PROVIDENCE – A tentative agreement between union workers and Stop & Shop LLC was reached over the weekend, both parties announced Sunday.
Union members of...
Have you crossed the Stop & Shop picket lines?
When more than 31,000 United Food and Commercial Workers went out on strike against Stop & Shop LLC on April 12, it was more...
Stop & Shop strike enters first full day, closes some stores
PROVIDENCE – The strike of unionized Stop & Shop LLC workers entered its first full day Friday.
More than 31,000 United Food and Commercial Workers...
Stop & Shop workers strike
PROVIDENCE – Unionized Stop & Shop workers went on strike Thursday.
United Food & Commercial Workers Locals 328, 371, 919, 1445 and 1459 members cited...
Can a self-described ‘pro[business]-growth progressive’ mayor boost investment in Providence?
The son of Guatemalan immigrants who settled in the West End of Providence, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza is a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps story: The first in...
UNAP approves negotiated Rhode Island Hospital contract
PROVIDENCE – The United Nurses and Allied Professionals Local 5098 approved a five-year contract with Rhode Island Hospital late Wednesday night.
The vote ends a...
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