“After over two decades of lobbying for binding arbitration, our time has come.”
Not if we have anything to do about it. The following e-mail was sent out this afternoon to teachers by NEARI President Larry Purtill regarding the Binding Arbitration bill which will have a hearing next Wednesday. Interesting set of “talking points” attached. Whatever he said, just do the opposite, and you should be okay. We’ve highlighted some of the more interesting points.
Subject: URGENT Message from NEARI president
A message from NEARI President Larry Purtill:
URGENT!!!! The RI House Labor Committee will hear legislation on binding arbitration for teachers Wednesday, October 21, 2 PM at the State House, and the full General Assembly is scheduled to reconvene October 28-29.
After over two decades of lobbying for binding arbitration, our time has come. It is imperative that NEARI members call, email, or write their representatives and senators urging their support for binding arbitration. Our opponents have been contacting members of the legislature – now it is time they hear from us. Binding arbitration will provide a closure mechanism to the collective bargaining process that we have needed for a long time. We cannot allow another East Providence situation to occur in Rhode Island!
You can find contact information for your legislators here:
<http://capwiz.com/nea/ri/state/main/?state=RI> .
Below are talking points to help you craft your message.
Binding Arbitration Talking Points Continue reading ‘News From Our NEARI Mole Regarding Binding Arbitration’
As of 4:00 PM today, there were 1 Democrat, 2 Independents, and 1 Republican candidate who had declared their candidacies for the House District 62 Special Election. The Republican candidate will be Tom Clupny of Rumford (who incidentally, is a neighbor of the recently resigned Rep. Betsy Dennigan). Because only 1 candidate from each party declared, there will not be a need for a November 24th primary (which is fine by us!). The election will be on December 29th.
The following is from the RI Secretary of State’s office:
Four candidates officially filed to run for Elizabeth Dennigan’s former House seat by today’s 4 p.m. deadline.
Filing for the House District 62 race are Democrat Mary Duffy Messier of Pawtucket, independents Brian Cinq-Mars of Pawtucket and Paul Dinsmore of East Providence, who challenged Dennigan as a Republican in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008; and Republican Thomas Clupny of East Providence.
State law gave the contenders until this afternoon to submit official Declarations of Candidacy. In order to file, the candidates had to be registered voters of the district, which stretches along the banks of the Seekonk River in East Providence and Pawtucket.
The next step begins this Tuesday, when the contenders can begin asking House District 62 voters to sign their nomination papers. The documents– including the signatures of at least 50 local voters – must be submitted to the local boards of canvassers by Oct. 27.
It won’t be known which candidates will qualify for the ballot until our office and the East Providence and Pawtucket boards of canvassers have certified that the contenders submitted the required 50 valid signatures. The certification of signatures generally takes several days.
The special election became necessary when Dennigan resigned Oct. 1. While there will be no primary, there are several other crucial dates leading up to the Dec. 29 election. Nov. 28 is the deadline for registering to vote and mail ballots must be requested by Dec. 8.
From the ProJo http://newsblog.projo.com/2009/10/ri-legislative-committee-to-ho.html
Scheduled for the week before the full General Assembly returns for the first time since June, the House Labor Committee hearing has been scheduled for 2 p.m. in Room 313 of the State House.
The focus of the hearing will be a bill, introduced by Rep. Alfred A. Gemma, D-Warwick, on January 22.
Among the key provisions: “If no agreement is reached by midnight of the expiration of the existing contract … the parties shall submit a list of their respective unresolved issues to the mediator. If an agreement is not reached prior to the opening of school, teachers shall continue to work under the terms of the existing contract and…the parties shall then proceed to arbitration …
“The arbitration panel shall resolve separately each individual disputed issue by accepting the last best offer thereon of either of the parties…The decision shall be rendered within thirty (30) days of the conclusion of the arbitration hearings.”
The House’s Democratic leaders have not said they are committed to passing a binding arbitration bill before the year is out. But given the strong push for the legislation by the teacher unions, they have evidently agreed to use the Gemma bill as a vehicle for a public discussion of the pros and cons.
I guess the revolution in East Providence was too successful for the NEA / AFT. They have cried havoc and relased the legislators of war.
The next South County Republican Breakfast will be held on Saturday, October 17th at 8:00 A.M., hosted by the South Kingstown GOP, at Camden’s Restaurant on Kingstown Rd. (Rt. 108) in Wakefield (located near Benny’s, and across from Old Mountain Field).
The breakfast is open to all Republicans in 10 southern R.I. towns (Charlestown, Richmond, Hopkinton, Westerly, Narragansett, North Kingstown, South Kingstown, Exeter, West Greenwich, East Greenwich). For more information, contact SKGOP Chair Roland Benjamin at rbenjamin [at] LFIInc [dot] com or Martha Stamp at 783-6192.
Please support the Roger Williams University College Republicans by attending their Fall Fundraiser. Light Hors d’oeuvres and Cocktails will be served.
Cost: $30 per person or $50 per couple
Date: October 16th, 2009 @ 6:00 P.M.
Address: Home of Bob Hamel, 859 Hope Street, Bristol, RI
MEET THE CANDIDATES FORUM on OCTOBER 16, 2009
West Greenwich, RI – The Rhode Island Voter Coalition (RIVC) will host a ‘Meet the Candidates’ Forum on Friday, October 16, 2009 at the The Elks Lodge located at 42 Nooseneck Hill Rd, in West Greenwich, RI from 6:00pm to 10:00pm.
The candidates scheduled to attend the forum on October 16th are:
Erik Wallin, candidate for RI Attorney General,
Mark Zaccaria, candidate for US House of Representatives, 2nd District,
Joe Trillo, RI House of Representatives (District 24) and,
Moe Green, RI House of Representatives (District 10)
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