Health CareSaturday, November 7
More than 200 Roger Williams Medical Center workers announce they're joining SEIU 1199NE
The 5AM North Providence team
If you or someone you love works at Roger Williams Medical Center, here's the news: more than 200 employees announced Thursday that they're joining SEIU 1199 New England. Two groups of workers are signing on, skilled maintenance workers and service and maintenance workers.
200+Roger Williams Medical Center workers joining SEIU 1199 New England
The two groups announced their decision at a press conference on Thursday, Nov. 5.
Sources: SteveAhlquist.news, Providence Business News
Speakers described stalled pay and understaffed units. Meanwhile, Attorney General Peter F. Neronha's office is demanding another updated strategic plan from Centurion Foundation, which operates the hospital. That comes five weeks after Centurion submitted a revised plan at his request.
- Union: SEIU 1199 New England
- Jobs: CNAs, dietary aides, psychiatric technicians, plumbers, electricians
- Same operator: Our Lady of Fatima Hospital
Workers and union leaders put numbers on the pay gap
- 6 years
- without a raise in some cases, a speaker said
- 18 cents
- an hour: the raise a speaker said was offered
- $8 to $10
- more an hour at other hospitals, a worker said
- 80,000
- Rhode Island AFL-CIO members a speaker spoke for
Source: SteveAhlquist.news
Sources: SteveAhlquist.news, Providence Business News