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COPYRIGHT 2005 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News
By John Castellucci, The Providence Journal, R.I. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 28--PAWTUCKET -- A year ago, Mayor James E. Doyle criticized the School Committee for negotiating a one-year contract extension with the teachers' union without demanding that teachers pick up part of the rapidly rising cost of health care.
Last week, a City Council member had the same complaint.
"I think it's time for teachers to step up to the plate and negotiate a co-pay," Ward 1 City Councilor David P. Moran said, as he voted with other council members to approve a new three-year contract with the Pawtucket Firefighters Independent Union.
The contract took months to negotiate, but, in the end,...
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