Friday, March 1, 2013
The EG Fire District spent $147,000 on equipment for the failed plan to have Warwick take over dispatch duties.
Fire Chief Peter Henrikson told the Fire Commissioners the equipment bought to help Warwick take over dispatch duties for East Greenwich may be able to be used in a Fire District–Town collaboration. "Before we try to reach out to see what we could get on the market, we want to sit with the town," Henrikson said. "Part of that is whether or not they'd be interested in moving dispatch to the police station with an additional console and also discussing the equipment we've retrieved from the City of Warwick." The Fire District went to Warwick in 2009 with the idea of Warwick taking over EG dispatch because East Greenwich wanted to free up a firefighter from dispatch duties. By 2010, East Greenwich had many several purchases to smooth …
Friday, January 18, 2013
They are the first of three town unions to settle their contract.
The police union approved a new three-year contract Monday night in a 20-2 vote. The contract now goes before the Town Council for a vote Jan. 28. The contract gives no raise the first year, a 2 percent raise in year two, and a 3 percent raise in year three. The police union is the first of the town’s three unions to settle a contract. Contracts for all three unions expired at the end of the last fiscal year – June 30, 2012 – so this new police contract, if approved by the Council, will be retroactive to July 1, 2012. Lieutenant Stanley "Skip" Cirella, the union representative for the police, said negotiations with the town began a year ago. “It is definitely a process that takes time,” he said. “As usual we do hope to complete …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The teachers union cites failure of the schools to notify about negotiating a new contract, paving the way for a one-year contract extension.
Before contract negotiations have even begun on a new teachers contract — the existing one expires July 30 — the two sides are at loggerheads over the breach of a clause in the contract that the union says extends their contract one year. According to Supt. Victor Mercurio, union officials told him earlier this month that since they were not notified in writing about the school department’s desire to negotiate a new contract, the existing contract would be renewed for an additional year. Although that language does exist in the contract between the teachers and the school department, that is not how school officials see it. “We were surprised and disappointed,” said School Committee Chair Deidre Gifford. “There’s no reason why they can’t …
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10:14 pm on Friday, January 18, 2013
You can be assured a very, very, very small percentage of municipal town employees have no Co-pay. They have been working for the town for 20-30 years and it was part of their contract. Some of them only make between 35- 40k. after that many years of service. And any new hires for beyond the last decade plus have Co-pays. Sometimes it's the details that make all the difference in a story. Hey, … more ›