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Labor and Ethnic Heritage Festival this Weekend
Pat Crowley |  August 27, 2010
Slater Mill  presents its annual Labor & Ethnic Heritage Festival 2010 with a day of folk music and dance, fine crafts and artisans, as well as food and fun for children sponsored by Working RI and the Pawtucket Arts Festival.  The Festival showcases this summer season's gifted performers,…
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"Our immigration system makes a mockery of the American dream. "
Pat Crowley |  June 24, 2010
On June 18th AFL-CIO National President Richard Trumka delivered a speech on immigration that I thought deserved to be reprinted in its entirety.  Trumka lays out an alternative vision of not just immigration, but also the American dream, one that should be common sense and probably used to…
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Speak up for Kids !
Pat Crowley |  May 24, 2010
On Wednesday May 26th, call 1-866-608-6355 to contact your Representative in Congress. You will hear talking points and will be connected to the United States Capitol Switchboard – ask for your House Member. To find out who your House Member is, either ask the operator or click here. Tell your Representative…
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Rhode Island teachers working to bring $78million to the state in time for 2011 budget
Pat Crowley |  May 03, 2010
Classroom teachers around the country, including here in Rhode Island, are urging Congress to pass Senator Tom Harkin’s Keep Our Educators Working Act of 2010.  The bill would create a $23billion education jobs fund that states could use as an alternative to cutting teacher positions and local…
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The radical notion of long memory
Pat Crowley |  April 13, 2010
On August 11, 2007, a young woman was arrested for having her leg broken by the police.  Doesn’t something about that just sound wrong? Well it is. The trial of Alexandra Svoboda is scheduled to begin in the last week of April.  It is unconscionable that Alex is still being prosecuted in…
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In the absence of strong unions, Conservatives can rewrite history.
Pat Crowley |  March 13, 2010
You may not know this, few folks do, but the state of Texas helps set the direction for textbook sales throughout the entire country.  They do this because they are one of the largest statewide markets for textbooks, therefore what they want in their books gets put in books around the…
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Massive profits, so why is Stop and Shop pushing workers towards a strike?
Pat Crowley |  March 05, 2010
A Stop & Shop strike is possible so please prepare to support one. Read More...

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Central Falls Kids Deserve Better
Pat Crowley |  February 22, 2010

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"The Wonder of the World" on Labor Vision
Pat Crowley |  February 18, 2010
This week on Labor Vision, Scott Molloy, a professor of labor history at URI, lectures on Rhode Island Labor History (Part I) The Wonder of the World: Brown & Sharpe. This film documents the bitter strike between labor and management at Brown & Sharpe, a maker of precision machine parts in Providence.…
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Support Central Falls Teachers Tonight at 5:15 PM
Pat Crowley |  February 09, 2010
In late breaking news, the Central Falls School District has decided to fire its entire high school faculty.    Read More...

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"...a better future will only come when represented by a strong union."
Pat Crowley |  February 06, 2010
Dean Isabella from Providence has a letter to the editor in Pravda today that lays out an alternative vision of the world from what we typically see on those pages.  Check it out. Reasons to unionize Read More...

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Unions win on health insurance tax
Pat Crowley |  January 15, 2010
Once again, having a union is a source of power for the working class. The changes to the health care bill that were announced late last night in the New York Times are good, not great, and there should still be a public option, but progress has been made. Under the bill passed last month by the Senate,…
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Another argument against a health care excise tax
Pat Crowley |  December 12, 2009

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New font, but still no wisdom
Bob Walsh |  October 31, 2009
The 2009 Halloween edition of the Providence Journal gives us another scary unsigned editorial attacking labor unions and those that support them.  This time, the ProJo's designated union hitter used two recent cases to vent his impotent rage.The first case cited was a decision before the State…
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The most dangerous woman in Rhode Island moves on
Pat Crowley |  October 16, 2009
To the delight of bosses across the state, Rachel Miller, the long time director of Rhode Island Jobs with Justice, has decided to move on to bigger and better things.  Rachel's work with RI JWJ was extraordinary; she took a rag tag bunch of miscreants and assorted trouble makers and turned…

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Laborvision This Week
Pat Crowley |  August 02, 2009
Check out another great Laborvision show this week.  Here is a preview:

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Justice for Farmworkers
Pat Crowley |  July 29, 2009
 Most folks don’t know it, but there are several major flaws in the National Labor Relations Act, the federal law that give workers the right to form unions.  We have spoken often about the flaws in the organizing process and the need for reform. But a little known flaw is that millions…
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Curiosity and teacher pay: The Rhode Island Experience
Pat Crowley |  July 21, 2009
Yesterday I reported on how teacher pay has remained stagnant in America over the last 20 years.  In fact, when you look at teacher pay using constant dollars, teachers earn less today that they did 20 years ago.  How did Rhode Island teachers fair? According to this chart, looking at the last…
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Curiosity and teacher pay
Pat Crowley |  July 20, 2009
Given Tom’s strong post about curiosity, I decided to go back and look at a favorite subject of mine: teacher salaries. In the world of condemnation, teacher salaries are talked about like they are virtually walking away with wheel barrels full of cash. But let’s look at how teachers have…
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The Merit Pay Mythology
Pat Crowley |  July 20, 2009
NPR has a great story on Morning Edition today about how workers get paid….in the REAL world as opposed to the ivory tower world of economics. It blows away, in simple, common sense terms, the concept of "merit pay:" If everybody thinks he is above average, and you do merit pay, and the merit pay…
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