After huddling up in North Providence for a couple of hours this afternoon and listening to an explanation by a couple of HR people from the state of certain nuances of the proposal, the ProJo reports that

The leaders of the largest state employees union reversed course Friday afternoon and agreed to let their members vote on Governor Carcieri’s $36-million pay-deferral plan.

And in reporting this development at the bottom of the hour, WPRO’s Carolyn Cronin used the term “ballot vote”, presumably meaning a secret vote; if so, this, too, is a good thing.