Some of you may remember that we filed a class action grievance when the State changed the mileage rate after the CBA date of 1 January in 2009.  We won this action and attach a remedy hereto. 

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the nation's largest healthcare union, representing more than 1.1 million nurses, doctors and healthcare workers. Following the Obama Administration's announcement today on contraceptive coverage, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement:

RI Retirement Security Coalition supports all workers.

The foreclosure crisis just keeps getting worse. More than 12 percent of residential mortgage loans are in foreclosure or at least one payment past due. Millions of homes have been needlessly foreclosed on because banks have not modified homeowners’ mortgages to affordable levels. On top of this misery, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) funding for counseling to prevent foreclosures has been cut to zero.

Meanwhile Congressional Republicans enacted a budget slashing funding for OSHA the agency responsible for enforcing worker safety and health standards, as well as for the agency that issues tsunami warnings.