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Main page | October 12, 2007 » October 11, 2007
DMV workers arrested in fraud schemeTwo clerks at the Division of Motor Vehicles in Pawtucket have been charged by the state police in a wide-ranging scheme of falsifying dozens of Rhode Island driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants and people involved in midlevel drug dealing, according to the Providence Journal. Dolores Rodriguez-LaFlamme, 40, of Providence, and Soraya Santiago, 42, of Pawtucket, are accused of working with two “middlemen,” who were paid about $2,500 to $3,000 by each person who wanted a valid Rhode Island license — with a fake identity.
Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth Gettelfinger has to flex workers' muscleIf this round of UAW contracts is indeed a transformational turning point that will make Detroit's auto companies competitive with their Asian rivals, there was bound to be drama and brinksmanship along the way, according to the Detroit Free Press's Tom Walsh. And there was. Union workers struck Chrysler plants for about six hours Wednesday before UAW President Ron Gettelfinger announced a tentative contract deal at Chrysler just before 5:30 p.m. He also said workers at General Motors Corp. have ratified their contract, reached after a two-day strike, by a ratio of nearly 2-1.
Posted by Peter C. T. Elsworth Chrysler, UAW settle after short walkoutChrysler and the UAW, after a 6- 1/2 hour strike involving 34,000 workers, reached a tentative agreement on a new labor contract Wednesday, dramatically easing tensions throughout a U.S. auto industry bracing for the impact of a second major work stoppage against a Detroit carmaker in 2 1/2 weeks, according to the Detroit Free Press. That deal, officially ratified Wednesday by rank-and-file members, ended a two-day strike against GM.
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