State won’t privatize hospital, vets’ home
Source: By Steve Peoples, Providence Journal (RI), Thursday, June 28, 2007
Governor Carcieri is backing off a controversial move to replace 180 state employees with private workers at the state-run Eleanor Slater Hospital and veteran’s home. And his plans to expand privatization across a host of state services appear to be dead — at least for now, his office confirmed yesterday.
The dramatic reversal was prompted not by repeated pleas from handicapped hospital residents at State House rallies, nor by several rounds of anti-privatization television and radio ads produced by the largest state employees union, Rhode Island Council 94, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.