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Labor VisionA Green Economy for Rhode Island with Climate Jobs RILabor Vision host Autumn Guillotte sits down with Climate Jobs RI’s Erica Hammond, Lead Organizer, Mike Roles, Policy Director, and Aislinn Hanley, Energy Fellow to talk about victories in 2022 and upcoming 2023 priorities.
In 2022, Climate Jobs RI’s successes included strengthening labor standards in renewable energy projects, building pathways for trades apprenticeship for those affected most in the climate transition, the Renewable Energy Standard Bill requiring 100% of electricity to be sourced by renewable energy by 2033, and the Offshore Wind Procurement bill paving the way for 600-1000 megawatts of offshore wind in Rhode Island.
In 2023, Climate Jobs...2023-03-2910 minLabor VisionPart 2: Organizing and Reinventing Unions in the 1970s and 1980sThis special podcast episode covers the second half of the Rhode Island Labor History Society Panel Discussion “Organizing and Reinventing Unions in the 1970s and 1980s: Stories and Lessons Learned by Those Who Were There” and features panelists Tracy Fitzpatrick, Jim McGetrick, and Reverend Duane Clinker.
Tracy Fitzpatrick organized jewelry employees. She served as Assistant Secretary of Labor in Massachusetts under Governor Dukakis and has been a consultant to many unions. She is currently a Life Coach.
Jim McGetrick was an organizer for the United Steelworkers of America at Electric Boat, Quonset Point. He taught in P...2023-03-161h 22Labor VisionPart 1: Organizing and Reinventing Unions in the 1970s and 1980sThis special podcast episode covers the Rhode Island Labor History Society Panel Discussion “Organizing and Reinventing Unions in the 1970s and 1980s: Stories and Lessons Learned by Those Who Were There” and features the first two panelists of the event, George Nee and Scott Molloy, Ph.D.
George Nee, chairman of the Institute for Labor Studies and Research and President of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, discusses the founding of Local 76, RI Workers Association.
Scott Molloy, Ph.D. discusses his experience as a RIPTA bus driver and business agent for the Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 618, and st...2023-03-081h 08Labor VisionLabor Vision: Staffing Crisis At Rhode Island Dept Of Human Services (DHS)Show host Autumn sits down with Matthew Gunnip, President, Service Employees International Union SEIU Local 580 and Rafael Martinez, President, AFSCME Local 2882 to talk about the staffing issues at DHS.
Due to the understaffing and the pandemic, massive backlogs for vital assistance are keeping Rhode Islanders from accessing the critical services that DHS provides. Food assistance, child care, medical care and income supports are but a few of the necessary programs that are being affected by this lack of urgency to fill these support positions.
The state agency has roughly 150 unfilled positions, and in some cases i...2022-06-1342 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: The Free College Program of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO
Did you know that as a member of a labor union affiliated with the
Rhode Island AFL-CIO
you and your family members can get a FREE college degree?
This week on Labor Vision, Learn about the No Cost College program with Michael Perik, CEO, Student Resource Center.
Hosted by Bob Delaney and Erica Hammond, Institute for Labor Studies and Research.
For more information:
Website: https://freecollege.riafl-cio.org
or call: Toll Free: 888-590-9009
2021-03-0221 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: The Opioid Crisis ( Part 3) Peer Recovery Programs: Part three of a Labor Vision series on tackling the opioid crisis within the labor movementOpioid Crisis In The Building & Construction Trades (part lll). Jill Traecy, Independent Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Health Initiatives Manager at Building Futures, and Tim Potter an Electrician with IBEW Local 99 and Certified Peer Recovery Specialist discuss the Peer Recovery Program and why opioid abuse is impacting the construction industry at such alarming rates. We also take a closer look at the Opioid Crisis in RI and the Our Response Our Recovery training developed by Building Futures. This is in partnership with the RI Building and Construction Trades and Associated General Contractors of America, RI Chapter, with support from...2021-01-1627 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: The Opioid Crisis ( Part 2) Organizing against opioids: Part two of a Labor Vision series on tackling the opioid crisis within the labor movementErica Hammond sits down with Jill Traecy, a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker & Health Initiatives Manager at Building Futures, to discuss a new training she’s been working on with partners like the RI Building and Construction Trades Council, the Associated General Contractors of America, RI Chapter, and support from the RI Dept. of Labor and Training. RI Opioid Crisis: Our Response Our Recovery training is to be offered in all trades union halls as well as on as many construction/job sites in the state as possible. In this segment Traecy outlines each of the training’s core comp...2021-01-1148 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: The Opioid Crisis (Part I) - Building and Construction Industry ImpactNationally, construction workers account for 20-25% of overdose fatalities and in Rhode Island, 1 in 5 individuals who have died of an overdose worked in the construction industry. Over the past few years, the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, along with several partners, are working to address this issue and educate leaders on ways to combat the problem plaguing the industry.
2021-01-0428 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: RI AFL-CIO 2021 Legislative Agenda & Update With George Nee & Patrick CrowleyRI AFL-CIO 2021 Legislative Agenda & Update With George Nee & Patrick Crowley. On the latest episode of Labor Vision, RI AFL-CIO's President George Nee and Secretary-Treasurer Patrick Crowley discuss a handful of the legislation on RI Labor's agenda for next year's legislative session. President Nee discusses the work that will continue to increase the minimum wage with a path to $15/hour over a span of three years. He also highlights the ongoing campaigns to increase the wages and working standards of both Direct Service Providers and individuals working in the nursing home industry. Secretary-Treasurer Crowley highlights labor's concerns with the current...2020-12-1732 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: NEARI's Children's Fund 2020NEARI Holiday Children's Fund 2020 Erica is joined by National Education Association of Rhode Island (NEARI) President, Lawrence Purtill, and Children's Fund Coordinator, Valerie Staples. They talk about NEARI's Children's Fund and how it came to fruition over thirty years ago. The pair also highlight some of the Fund's incredible work in the community, including the annual Gingerbread Express. The group discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic has, for the first time in 30 years, stopped the Gingerbread Express in its tracks and now the Children's Fund is finding alternative was to help children in need this holiday season. And as Val...2020-12-1015 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Teamsters Local 251 shows how to organizer new workers during the COVID 19 pandemicIn this segment Erica Hammond (ILSR) sits down with Teamsters Local 251’s Principal Officer, Matthew Taibi and Organizer, Michael Simone. The group discusses the two organizing drives turned victories with Johnson Brothers of RI and Stericycle. Taibi and Simone also highlight their contract ratification in East Providence/Barrington with Ocean State Transit and how it led to their most recent organizing victories with Scituate First Student (drivers) and Durham School Services Smithfield (drivers, monitors, and aids)
2020-12-0723 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Scenes from the SEIU Local 1199NE strike at Bannister HouseNow showing on Labor Vision, the frontline workers of SEIU Local 1199NE at Bannister House in Providence went on strike from Oct. 2-4 for safe staffing legislation. Watch and listen how labor leaders and politicians alike question how residents are shortchanged by receiving only two hours a day of care when industry standards say they should receive 4.1 hours a day.
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...2020-11-1924 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: A visit to Rhode Island's Building Futures programLabor Vision goes on location to learn about the pre-apprenticeship program at Building Futures as Director Andrew Cortés gives a tour of the Building Futures training facility and discusses how they give back to the community. Here, in partnership with One Neighborhood, Building Futures helps to improve the neighborhood in Riverside Park by constructing five net-zero emissions homes for low income residents. We also meet recent graduate, Lius Terrero, who gives insight into the skills he learned and how, now, as a union carpenter his family's situation has dramatically changed for the better.
Never miss a s...2020-11-1918 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Updates from the Rhode Island Labor Movement during COVIDPresident Nee and Secretary-Treasurer Crowley join Erica Hammond to talk about the alternate nature of doing things in these times, from working at the legislature, to organizing, and holding rallies and strikes, all virtually. As well as working to achieve electoral goals, including the bond issues to change the state name; and on the local level to approve school improvements in several communities.
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Saturday @ 5p...2020-11-1927 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: All about Distance Learning with Colleen Callahan with the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals2020-05-1126 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: The Rhode Island After School Network and the Providence After School Alliance2020-05-1141 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: The Institute for Labor Studies and Research & COVID19Hosts Bob Delaney, Exec Director, & Erica Hammond, Labor Liaison , speak with Fatima Martin, and Sabine Adrian about the challenges facing the Institute for Labor Studies and changes made to our various programs as we transition to on-line learning during the COVID-19 crisis.
2020-04-1531 minLabor VisionLabor Vision TV COVID-19 Crisis With Larry Purtill, President of National Education Association Rhode IslandLabor Vision's Erica Hammond interviews NEARI President Larry Purtill about the how the educators of Rhode Island are rising to the challenge of distance learning during the Covid-19 crisis. http://neari.org/
2020-04-1312 minLabor VisionLabor Vision TV COVID-19 Crisis With Jay Walsh, American Association Of University ProfessorsLabor Vision's Erica Hammond interviews URI AAUP Executive Director Jay Walsh about his union's response to the COVID-19 crisis. http://www.uriaaup.org/
2020-04-1320 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Rhode Island AFL-CIO -Labors Response To The COVID-19 Crises In RIRhode Island AFL-CIO - Labors Response to the COVID-19 Crises in RI with Patrick Crowley, Secretary-Treasurer, RI AFL_CIO. Hosted by Erica Hammond, Institute for Labor Studies and Research.
2020 US Census with RI State Senator, Sandra Cano. Hosted by Thom Cahir, RI AFL-CIO
2020-04-0531 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: SEIU 1199 Healthcare Workers Minimum Staffing, VICTORY! Scituate CustodiansIn the first half of the show, Rep, David Bennett (D) Warwick, and SEIU Healthcare 1199NE Elected Organizer, Emmanuel Falck sit down to talk about a series of issues with Erica Hammond, including the recent vote to increase the minimum wage in Rhode Island; the fact RI is the only state in New England without a minimum safe staffing requirement law, and what healthcare workers are planning to do to change that; and a shortened exchange on the need to increase pay for Direct Service Professionals that care for developmentally disabled members of society.
In t...2020-04-0530 minLabor VisionLabor Vision : Women @ Work 3 (CLUW) Help A Sister Out, Legislative Issues With RI Sen Dawn EuerWomen @ Work 3 Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) Help A Sister Out, Period campaign with RI Senator Valerie Lawson & Desiree Leclair, SEIU Training Fund and newly elected President of Rhode Island CLUW. In the first half of the show, Erica Hammond sits down with Sen. Val Lawson and newly-elected CLUW President Desiree Leclair to talk about a common issue, last year's "Help a Sister Out, Period!" campaign, and the need for legislative relief for women and girls who many times go without and shouldn't.
Legislative Issues With RI Senator Dawn Euer, district 13 & Patrick Crowley, Secretary -Treasurer, RI A...2020-04-0530 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: UFCW 328 Organizing, Celebrate People Not RobotsIn what has proved to be a very turbulent period for UFCW Local 328, Secretary-Treasurer Domenic Pontarelli and Lead Organizer Sam Marvin sit down with Erica Hammond in the first half of the program to discuss the ongoing troubles with Durham School Services and their unwillingness to recognize, negotiate or pay a fair wage to bus drivers, monitors or aides in the Cumberland school district.
And in the second half of the show, Erica speaks with member Melissa Gaethofs, who works in the North Kingstown Stop & Shop store, and her business manager, Joe Renzi, over the latest outrage...2020-04-0530 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: What's going on in Providence Public Schools?Colleen Callahan, Ed.D, and Frank Flynn, President, RI Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals. Before the recent viral outbreak forced school closings, the Providence schools were taken over by the state of Rhode Island; and in response, Providence Teachers Union President Maribeth Calabro, along with RIFTHP President Frank Flynn and Director of Issues Colleen Callahan sat down with Bob Delaney to talk about the recent report from Johns Hopkins, the community forum they held in Providence, and how other communities have been instrumental in successfully advocating for and changing models for things like multiple language learners and community...2020-04-0530 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Interview with Jenn Woods from the Center for Justice andIn the first half of the show, Jenn Woods, Executive Director of the Center for Justice, sits down with Erica Hammond to discuss the work the center does on behalf of workers' rights, especially when it comes to the all-too-common practice of wage theft on the part of employers; as well as their willingness to many times take on causes for the overlooked or dispossessed.
In the second half of the show, Erica sits down with Bob Delaney, Executive Director at the Institute for Labor Studies and Research to talk about the upcoming Teacher Assistant program and...2020-02-0831 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Public Education Unions & Get to know AFSCME Council 94 In the first half of the show, Erica Hammond sits down with the presidents of two of the largest public sector unions in the state, respectively, Lawrence Purtill of the National Education Association Rhode Island and Frank Flynn of the RI Federation of Teachers and Health Professionals, to talk about their upcoming legislative agenda for the coming year, and their concerns after hearing about a looming deficit and needs for more cuts. In the second half of the show, in another of our "Know Your Unions" segments, Jim Cenerini the Legislative Affairs Coordinator/Lobbyist/Staff Representative for AFSCME Cou...2020-01-3130 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Working Women in Leadership and URI AAUPIn the first half of the program, Stephanie Mandeville from NEARI and Kathy McElroy of SEIU Local 580 sit down with Erica Hammond for the "Women in Leadership," program of our Women at Work series, talking briefly about their unions, who they represent, the role they play, and any specific issues or goals they are working to achieve. Then they will close with tips for women in labor interested in taking on leadership roles.
And in the second part of the show, Jay Walsh from the American Association of University Professors at URI, will sit down with Erica...2020-01-1930 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Labor's Legislative Agenda with RI AFL-CIO leaders George Nee and Maureen MartinAs the General Assembly gears up for its annual session, President George Nee and Secretary-Treasurer Maureen Martin sit down with Erica Hammond for an extended look back at last year's legislative victories and setbacks, including the Contract Continuation bill, and Firefighter OT bill; and look forward to the coming session, and the fight to bring the minimum wage on par with neighboring states, and ways to make employers pay their full share of healthcare costs, as well as making sure wage theft and overtime violations are dealt with as crimes against employees.
2020-01-0930 minLabor VisionLabor Vision : Seasons Greeting from the Rhode Island Labor Movement and the 2019 Gingerbread Express!Seasons Greetings from the Rhode Island Labor Movement and the annual NEARI Gingerbread Express celebration.
2020-01-0132 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Fighting Privatization in Scituate and Learning more about the RI Workers Comp Court Bob Delaney sits down with Josh Homerston and Nick Carnevale, two of the union custodians fighting a privatization drive in Scituate.
In part 2 Chief Judge Robert Ferrieri, and Associate Judge Steven Minicucci of the RI Workers’ Compensation Court to continue their discussion of the important work the court does on behalf of workers in Rhode Island.
2019-12-2630 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Jennifer Wood from the Center for Justice and Big Brother/Big Sister EventAt the RI AFL-CIO convention, Jennifer Wood, executive director of the Center for Justice outlined her organization's mission to provide legal services for those most in need.
And in the second half of the show, highlights from the annual Big Brother/Big Sister Halloween Hike in Roger Williams Park this year brought to us by the RI Building Trades Council.
2019-11-0935 minLabor VisionLabor Vision: Interviews with Economic Progress Institute and the RI Workers Compensation CourtIn the first half of the show, Rachel Flum, executive director of the Economic Progress Institute, and Andrew Schiff, chief executive officer of the Rhode Island Community Food Bank sit down with Erica Hammond to talk about the growing wealth gap in our community
Also, Bob Delaney sits down with Chief Judge Robert Ferrieri of the RI Workers’ Compensation Court to talk about the upcoming RI Workers' Compensation Educational Conference 2019.
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Labor VisionLabor Vision: SEIU 1199NE Collectively Bargained Training FundsPart One: Collectively Bargained Training Funds with Desiree Leclair, Director, Training and Upgrading Fund and Dulari Tahbildar, Director, Childcare Training Fund, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 1199NE.
Part Two: Ergonomics with Dr. Lee Okurowski, Medical Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Center of Rhode Island (OEHCRI).
2019-10-2828 minLabor Vision2019 Rhode Island Labor History Society Labor Day Speech featuring Justin Kelley of IUPAT DC 352019-09-1128 min