Rhode Island
R.I. union president talks about security for Chavez and a boycott’s unexpected support from the mob
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, R.I. AFL-CIO President George H. Nee looks back on decades as one of the state’s main labor leaders and looks forward to retirement and labor’s future goals.
On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Nee, 75, looked back on a career that included providing security for Cesar Chavez and organizing a lettuce boycott that received some unexpected assistance from organized crime figures on Federal Hill.
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