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New Bedford Fire Union President Billy Cabral says the City's SAFER grant for FY16 has already expired. The City's Chief Financial Officer, Ari Sky, confirms the grant expired in mid-March. Cabral says the City now has to pick up the tab for 63 firefighters that were funded by the federal grant for the next four months...

With the announcement that Southcoast Health and Care New England plan to merge healthcare systems, healthcare workers are keeping a close eye on the process. Jerry Fishbein, area Vice President of 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, his members want to be a part of the process every step of the way to ensure continued accessibility to quality care...

Protests over the City's rolling fire station brownouts are expected to begin Thursday afternoon outside of City Hall. Mayor Jon Mitchell says the situation regarding the Fire Department's budget needs to be put into context. Speaking on his weekly radio program, Mitchell says his administration is negotiating with the fire union, and the scheduled brownouts are not going to last forever... Read M

Stop & Shop has reached a tentative agreement with unionized workers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

BOSTON (AP) _ The state's two largest teachers unions are backing legislation that would expand a 2011 Massachusetts law that bans discrimination against transgender people in the workplace and in housing. Presidents of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and the American Federation of Teachers said Monday they support the legislation...

A new labor contract is being negotiated by the union representing Stop & Shop. However, no agreement has been reached so far.

Members of Local 1413 of the International Longshoremen's Association are continuing their informational picketline at the State Pier in New Bedford.

With a 3-0 vote on Thursday, the Westport School Committee has approved an agreed contract settlement with the Westport Federation of Teachers.

Members of United Steelworkers Local 1357 marched on a New Bedford plant for the second time in as many weeks Thursday afternoon, demanding a fair contract.

Ladies and Gentlemen; boys and girls- the circus is in town!  The Zerbini Family Circus is getting ready for their big top performance at Buttonwood Park as part of the annual New Bedford Police Union Festival. After hundreds of volunteer hours by the NBPD Union, all of the plans have finally come together for a weekend carnival, craft fair and one of the oldest American traditions- the circus! Re