Labor
Well, there you have it — further evidence of the unions’ strategy for getting their way. In a comment to Marc’s post on legislation creating perpetual union contracts, National Education Association of Rhode Island Assistant Executive Director Pat Crowley comments: Right wingers in favor of frivolous lawsuits…..gotta love it. As in: If this legislation doesn’t…
RI Sen. Charles Levesque (D-Bristol/Portsmouth) and Rep. Peter Palumbo (D-Cranston) have introduced legislation that would keep expired teachers’ contracts in place until they are replaced by new contracts. The Senate passed the measure and it is now waiting in the House (see the proposal here) for consideration. Why? Levesque said the intent is to help…
Rhode Island’s circumstances won’t change until enough voters see the scam in such news as this: The agreement, ratified by the committee on Tuesday night, gives all teachers a 2-percent raise for the 2010-2011 school year, said the schools superintendent, Margaret A. Iacovelli. The most experienced teachers (at the 10th step) will receive a 1.75…
The email is already rapidly permeating the Rhode Island wing of cyberspace announcing Senate passage of S0713 (PDF), which adds the following language to teacher-related labor law: In the event that a successor collective bargaining agreement has not been agreed to by the parties, then the existing contract shall continue in effect until such time…
Without coming down on either side of the particular issue on the table (which, whatever else its effects, has helped to highlight the multiple dumbnesses of Rhode Island politics), I have to express an objection to something that Andrew wrote earlier today: … Vice-President of the United States of America is not a union job.…
The possibility of payback in such forms as the following will be the continuing story: That news comes courtesy of federal disclosure forms that unions file each year with the Department of Labor. The Bush Administration toughened the enforcement of those disclosure rules, but under pressure from unions the Obama Labor shop is slashing funding…
Amidst a parade of economists and business advisers who see the prominence of unionized labor in Rhode Island to be a hindrance to economic growth in the state, the labor point of view is interesting: George H. Nee is the secretary-treasurer of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO and a member of the state Economic Policy Council,…
By now you should have read yesterday’s front-page advertisement for the Gaspee Tea Party rally in the Providence Journal. I’m referring to the article on big-money state pensions that Monique mentioned last night. Most of the article is a series of revelations that make one wish for something symbolic (but not harmful) to tip over…
Readers’ first reaction to this story may be “let my charters go”: Stymied by contractual rules that control the hiring and placement of teachers, three unionized charter schools are exploring whether to seek independence from the districts that govern them. Times2 Academy and the Textron Chamber of Commerce Academy, both in Providence, and the New…
Whether it’s with Police departments in Cranston and East Providence or charter schools in Providence and Cranston, union contracts just always seem to contain provisions that restrict basic management rights. In the case of the Police, why on earth should the Mayor and/or City Council not be able to hire whomever they want to be…
