Labor
Tiverton School Committee Vice Chairman Michael Burk offers the following response to some late night positioning from the NEA’s spinner for Tiverton: Yes, the School Committee did decide to go to arbitration — which by state law is not binding for financial issues but is binding on non-financial issues (most of the non-financials were settled…
I certainly don’t want to raise opposition to men battling cancer, but I’m a little confused, and not entirely assuaged by this: Providence Firefighters James Petersen Jr. and Jay Briddy have colon cancer, and Lt. Steven Schora has lymphoma. All three are out injured — Petersen since 2005, Briddy since 2004 and Schora since 1997.…
As Providence Firefighters’ Local 799 President Paul Doughty made clear, the union job action/teach-in on Sunday afternoon was not centered on the general contract dispute between the union and Mayor David Ciciclline, but on a specific situation involving firefighters Jay Briddy, James Petersen and Steven Schora, all of whom who have contracted cancers that prevent…
The focus of yesterday’s firefighters’ union teach-in was on the cancer situation facing three Providence firefighters; we’ll take that up directly in the next post. However, for better or for worse, attention became focused on Local 799’s job-action because of its potential to shut down a statewide Homeland Security drill, a possible outcome that alarmed…
Yesterday afternoon, following a statewide Homeland Security drill, the Providence Firefighters’ Union (Local 799) held a teach-in on the steps of Providence City Hall. The purpose of the teach-in was to highlight the situations of Providence firefighters Jay Briddy, James Petersen, and Steven Schora, who have not been medically cleared to perform a full range…
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 9 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Here is our blog post describing how there is NO “pay cut.” It even includes spreadsheets with documentation of data…
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 8 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Here is our blog post describing how there is NO “pay cut.” It even includes spreadsheets with documentation of data…
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 7 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Here is our blog post describing how there is NO “pay cut.” It even includes spreadsheets with documentation of data…
Still nothing from the NEA so the “pay cut” analysis hostage day count continues. Day 6 is now history. We eagerly await a response! The offer to post it here on Anchor Rising remains open. Here is our blog post describing how there is NO “pay cut.” It even includes spreadsheets with documentation of data…
Leslie Carbone, an adjunct scholar at the Lexington Institute, writes these words in a ProJo editorial entitled Schools versus the NEA-borhood bully: With the new school year under way, students, parents and teachers hoping for quality education face an ironic opponent: the National Education Association, America’s premier teachers union. When it comes to opposing common-sense…