Contact Your Legislators: Binding Arbitration Hearing on Wednesday

Legislation for Binding Arbitration and Extending teacher contracts to be heard:

Wednesday, October 21, 2009
House Labor Committee
2:00 P.M. in Room 313
Click here for the text of House bill H5142
introduced by Rep. Al Gemma

Call House Labor Committee members and tell them to
VOTE NO TO BINDING ARBITRATION AND PERPETUAL CONTRACTS!

Rhode Island cities and towns are struggling to keep afloat in the current financial meltdown. Not only can this lead to even higher property taxes, but it also takes away the right of your elected school committee to determine this major expense in the school budget. You, the taxpayer will not have a say nor will there be accountability by individual arbitrators who make these fiscal decisions. ACT NOW TO STOP THIS UNION POWER GRAB.

E-mail or call members of the House Labor Committee:

Representative Elaine A. Coderre
rep-ecoderre [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 726-1190

(Chairperson) Representative Arthur J. Corvese
rep-corvese [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 353-8695

Representative John G. Edwards
rep-edwards [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 624-8879

Representative Deborah A. Fellela
rep-fellela [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 231-2014

Representative Douglas W. Gablinske
rep-gablinske [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 253-5523

Representative Scott J. Guthrie
rep-guthrie [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 823-3451

Representative Peter F. Kilmartin
rep-kilmartin [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 727-2211

Representative John J. Loughlin Jr.
rep-loughlin [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 625-9889

Representative John J. McCauley Jr.
rep-mccauley [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 421-3331

Representative Mary Ann Shallcross Smith
rep-shallcrosssmith [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 727-8982

Representative Kenneth A. Vaudreuil
rep-vaudreuil [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 728-1532

(Vice Chairperson) Representative Anastasia Williams
rep-williams [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 272-8135

Representative Thomas Winfield
rep-winfield [at] rilin [dot] state [dot] ri [dot] us 949-3356

OCG urges you again to contact your own senator and representative and tell them NO to binding arbitration and perpetual contracts before it is too late. Go to the OCG website http://www.ocgri.org and click on “Find Your Elected Official.” We also urge you to call the following General Assembly leaders with the same message.

House Speaker William Murphy – 222-2466
House Majority Leader Gordon Fox – 222-2447
Senate President – Teresa Paiva Weed – 222-6655
Senate Majority Leader – Daniel Connors – 222-3310

Source: Operation Clean Government