by Ron DeLord | Apr 25, 2016 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Testimony in a lawsuit by a group of city retirees challenging the 2013 cuts the city made in police and fire retirement benefits entered its second week Monday, as a dozen former police and firefighters described how the benefit reductions affected...
by rondelord | Jan 5, 2015 | Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Days away from taking the oath of office that will make her the first female governor of Rhode Island, Governor-elect Gina Raimondo anticipates that public-employee pensions will be one of the first big items she tackles. Again. Specifically, she...
by rondelord | Oct 16, 2014 | Collective Bargaining, Fire, Labor, Pensions, Police, Politics, Public Employees (Non-Sworn), Unions
PROVIDENCE — The high-stakes union challenge to the 2011 pension overhaul championed by state treasurer and Democratic candidate for governor Gina Raimondo is back on the court docket for next week. Raimondo has made the sweeping rewrite of state pension law an issue...