A New Year wish to all.

Just wanted to wish all Union members of Local 1491, and their families a Happy New Years..
Have a great time and be safe.

Peter A DelFino
Treasurer & Police Steward
Local 1491
AFSCME

Merry Christmas wishes

I just wanted to wish all Union members along with their families a very Merry Christmas.
Peter A. DelFino
Treasurer & Police Steward

4th annual Gridiron Classic Flag football game

On October 23rd, 2009 the Johnston Police and Fire Departments will go head-to-head in the 4th Annual Gridiron Classic Flag Football Game to benefit The Autism Project of Rhode Island. The game is located at the Johnston High School football field (345 Cherry Hill Rd, Johnston R.I.) and kick-off is at 7:00 p.m. There will be refreshments, snacks and t-shirts available at the game as well as a prize raffle and a 50/50 raffle. This event is FREE to the public and donations will be available at the gate. Hope to see you there.

Executive board meeting of 10/15/2009

The Executive board held a meeting on Thursday October 15th 2009. Present at the meeting were President Prata, Vice President Tanzi, Secretary Bizzacco, Treasurer DelFino and Executive board member Marocco.
Topics discussed;
The passing of eight (8) months of Treasurer's reports.
A Union meeting to be held in November.
The purchasing of gift cards for Christmas for all Union members.
PCT refunds received by the Local.

Changes to the State Employees Retirement system

On 8/8/2009 The ERSRI did send out a enewsletter over the Internet to active members.
In short the enewletter states all the changes made to the ERSRI this year by the General Assembly.

All changes are for STATE EMPLOYEES, they DO NOT affect Municipal employees!!!!!!!
Therefore our pension plan HAS NOT been changes as of yet.................

Items for sale

I AM MOVING AND CANT TAKE THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WITH ME.
FOR SALE

KENMORE THRU-THE-WALL AIR CONDITIONER
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LIKE NEW / IN GREAT WORKING ORDER
ONLY 2 YEARS OLD
$250.00 OR BEST OFFER
SOLD
CHAR-BROIL GRILL WITH SIDE BURNER
COMES WITH COVER AND 1/2 TANK OF GAS
$75.00 OR BEST OFFER
SOLD
TWO 5X8 RUGS
1 GREEN WITH BEIGE FLOWER
1 ALL TAN
$20.00 OR BEST OFFER
SOLD
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Death of Margaret (LaTorre) DeVecchis

MARGARET M. (LaTORRE) DeVECCHIS 90, of Hartford Ave., Johnston passed away Monday July 5, 2009 at RI Hospital in Providence. She was the wife of the late Pompeo DeVecchis. Born in Methuen MA., she was the daughter of the late Benedict and Carmella (Paris) LaTorre Margaret worked for General Electric of Providence for 10 years before retiring. She was a member of the Johnston Democratic Party, and the Manton Seniors. She was the beloved mother of Pompeo DeVecchis Jr., Amalia Blinkhorn and JoAnn Bertani, dear grandmother of five and great-grandmother of twelve, and great-great grandmother of four. She was the loving sister of Benjamin LaTorre and Camille Seccareccio both of Methuen, MA. Her funeral will be held on Friday at 9 a.m. from the NARDOLILLO FUNERAL HOME 1278 Park Ave., Cranston followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in Holy Cross Church Hartford Ave., Providence at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence.
VISITING HOURS THURSDAY 5-8 P.M. Kindly Omit Flowers.

Margaret was the Mother to fellow Union member Pompei DeVecchis Jr. A donation will be made on behalf of her name and Pompei's (TBA)

Happy Fathers day

Just wanted to wish all our Union members who a Fathers, a Happy Fathers day.
Enjoy you day !!!!!

After looking at the blog I realized that I forgot to do the same for Mothers day.
So to all you Mothers, I hope you had a great day as well.......

Death of Florence (Perfetto) DiDonato

Florence (Perfitto) DiDonato of Johnston RI, passed away on June 7, 2009 at Miriam Hospital, in Providence RI. She was the wife of the late Domenic DiDonato Jr.
She was the Daughter of the late Vincenzo and Carmella (DiLullo) Perfetto.
She was the Mother of Donna Giudici and her Husband Robert,Joseph D DiDonato and his wife Denise and Russell DiDonato and his wife Heidi, all of Johnston. She had five Grandchildren.
Florence had 14 siblings.
Donations can be made to Sacred Heart Manor, 265 Benham St., Hamden CT.
Florence was the Grandmother to fellow Union member Joe DiDonato Jr.
A donation will be made on behalf of her name and Joe's to the Sacred Heart Manor by our Union.

Death of Doreen Weller

Doreen Weller 82, of Lexington Ave., Cranston RI, died Saturday June 6, 2009 at RI Hospital, Providence.
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, a Daughter of the late John and Dolly (Hanning) Weller.
Doreen had been an entertainer for many years.
She leaves her Children, John Rutkowski of Cranston, Judy Griffith of Woodstock ,GA, Cabrina Cipriano of Johnston and Victor Cipriano, retired fire Chief, of Highland Beach, FL,11 Grandchildren and 6 Great Grandchildren,sisters Moira Huggins and Maryann York both from New Zealand.
Ms. Weller was the Grandmother of fellow Union member Erica Cipriano!!
Per Erica's request a donation was made to the Lynn Regional Cancer Institution of Boca Raton in Ms Wellers name.

Blood drive

The Johnston FOP (Fraternal order of Police) Lodge #16 will be hosting a blood drive. The date of the drive is Tuesday, June 30th 2009. The blood drive will be from 3 PM till 8 PM. The location of the drive is the Johnston Senior center on Hartford Ave., Johnston. The Blood center will also be asking individuals if they would like to be tested for Bone Maro. This is done via a blood test. There is a Child who lives in Johnston who they are testing for. I do not have his name at this time.

Union members who retired

The following Union members have retired from AFSCME Local 1491.
I just wanted to wish them good luck!!

Ann Marie Cardillo
Rosemarie Conti
Vincent DeTora
Fran DiBiasio
Charlotte Lanni
Ricky Lanni
Agnes Mancini
Arlene Morris
Wil Courtemanche

Union members vote on concessions

On Thursday March 19th 2009 Local 1491 did vote on accepting concessions that the Town of Johnston asked our Local to take.
The Union members did vote to accept the concessions by a vote of 56 to 27..
For a complete list of concessions, see the post dated March 12th 2009!!!!!!!!!!

We were the first Union to give the Mayor what he wanted, when he first came into office.
Now, once again, we are the first Union to give into the Mayor's concessions.
When our contract expires on June 30th 2010, we will see if the Mayor remebers this, or if our Union made a BIG MISTAKE...

Concession meeting

I urge every Union member to come to the Union meeting on Thursday March 19th and vote!!! No matter how you vote, your vote does count... I would be happy to seat down with any Union member and give them my opinion on the vote!

March Union meeting

The March 2009 Union meeting will be held on Thursday, March 19th at 5PM. The meeting will be held at the Johnston Middle school in the cafeteria. This meeting will be for our Union members to vote on concessions that the Town of Johnston is asking our Union.
The concessions are;
1. For the years 2009 and 2010 all employees who receive a $500.00 clothing allowance would only receive $250.00 for these two years.
2. For the year 2010 all employees who receive a $100.00 booth allowance would forgo it.
3. The town is asking for four (4) furlough days from each employee. One each of the following months, March, April, May and June 2009.
4. All employees would have to pay the following for health care; Single plan $40.00 a month.
Family plans $60.00 a month.
ALL THESE CONCESSIONS WOULD START THE DAY THE UNION PASSES THE ABOVE, IF THE MEMBERSHIP DOES NOT PASS THE ABOVE CONCESSIONS THE TOWN WILL LAY OFF FROM 11 TO 15 EMPLOYEES. THE TOWN TOLD THE POLICE THE SAME THING, THEY REJECTED THE CONCESSIONS AND NO ONE HAS BEEN LAYED OFF!!!!!

Union meetings cancelled

The January and February Union meetings were cancelled due to the School system being closed, and we were unable to hold our Union meetings.