Police have criminally charged a second Market Basket employee for alleged sexual misconduct at the company’s New Bedford supermarket. Juana DeLeon Quinilla, an employee who has chosen to speak publicly under her real name, is accusing a colleague of flashing his penis to her while she cleaned the men’s bathroom and grabbing her butt and […]
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ABC6 employees vote to form union
Creative and production staff members at local television news station ABC6 won their union election Monday night 22-3, with two abstentions. The ABC6 unit is now part of the Communications’ Workers of America’s broadcast arm, called NABET. It represents producers, photographers, meteorologists, reporters, technical staff, and web staff. Sales workers, anchors, sportscasters and engineers are […]
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CharterCARE Union Opposes Purchase by Centurion Foundation
United Nurses and Allied Professionals, which represents almost 1,000 workers at CharterCare Health Partners, announced Monday its opposition to the Centurion Foundation’s proposed purchase of CharterCARE. In a statement, UNAP called on Attorney General Peter Neronha and the Rhode Island Department of Health to reject the Atlanta-based nonprofit foundation’s attempt to acquire CharterCARE. “We took […]
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RIPTA board member Pat Crowley on how the agency can avoid proposed service cuts
Rhode Island’s public transit authority, RIPTA, has been making headlines lately. Proposed service cuts, angry riders, an embattled CEO, and debate over where to locate Providence’s central bus hub.
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ABC6 workers announce union campaign
Rhode Island and Southeast Massachusetts workers at local news station ABC6 are launching union organizing efforts, according to two employees with the unit’s organizing committee. The workers, who want to join the Communications Workers of America’s broadcast arm, The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET), say they are calling for a union because […]
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Federal child labor investigation into New Bedford’s seafood processing industry expanded
The U.S. Department of Labor has stepped up its investigation into possible child labor law violations in New Bedford’s seafood processing industry.
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Women & Infants Hospital front-line workers say staffing shortages are straining patient care
Unionized nurses and other frontline caregivers at Women & Infants Hospital are calling on management to address staffing shortages that are expected to be especially acute during the holidays. “Right now there’s such a nursing shortage that it’s very hard to even staff this hospital appropriately,’’ Dana Carcieri, a nurse who worked 26 years in […]
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A migrant teenager with debts to pay, Rhode Island’s history tourism potential, and more
In New Bedford, a migrant teen traded her job in a fish processing plant for a high school education. Now, she’s struggling to figure out how to survive financially. And, is Rhode Island losing tourism dollars by not emphasizing the Ocean State’s prominent role in American history? Also, the holidays are here and so are some unwelcome guests: COVID, the flu and the virus known as RSV. We’ll hear from a medical director at the Rhode Island Department of Health. Plus, stone carver Karin Sprague makes grave markers that are works of art and comfort.
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Underage and Unprotected: Migrant teens worked in risky jobs in New Bedford seafood processing plants
The U.S. Department of Labor is investigating possible violations of child labor, overtime pay, and anti-retaliation laws at two processors and one Rhode Island-based staffing agency