RIPERC - Rhode Island Public Employee Retiree Council

Please be advised there will be a retiree forum at Twin River on April 19, 2018 beginning at 10AM .
Sign in starts at 9:30 AM. and is free and open to all Union retirees.
Speakers include Gen.Treasurer Seth Magaziner  who will give a report on the State Pension Fund; Helen Mulligan and Cathrine Leblanc will be speaking on Social Security and Medicare.
Light refreshments will be served as well.

Sound the Alarm!

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Brother Vincent Quinterno is looking for volunteers to help Sound the Alarm and be part of the nationwide Red Cross effort to help reduce the number of deaths and injuries caused by home fires.
Red Cross Rhode Island and local partners will be canvassing neighborhoods, installing free smoke alarms and replacing batteries in existing alarms.
Sound the Alarm home fire safety and smoke alarm installation event will take place on Saturday, May 5 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Contact Vinny if you wish to volunteer!

Workers' Memorial Day, International Workers' Memorial Day or International Commemoration Day (ICD) for Dead and Injured or Day of Mourning takes place annually around the world on April 28, an international day of remembrance and action for workers killed, disabled, injured or made unwell by their work.

orkers' Memorial Day is an opportunity to highlight the preventable nature of most workplace incidents and ill health and to promote campaigns and union organisation in the fight for improvements in workplace safety. The slogan for the day is Remember the dead – Fight for the living.