PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Providence lawmakers have expressed their support for the newly-formed Atlantic Mills Tenant Union, the first commercial tenant union in Rhode Island.
Tenants of Atlantic Mills announced they had formed a tenants union back on Dec. 21.
The Atlantic Mills Tenants Union was established as an affiliate as a chapter of the Rhode Island Tenants Union, and called for the mill’s current owners, The Howard and Eleanor Brynes Trust, and potential future owners, Robert Berle and Eric Edelman, to “come to the negotiating table in good faith to collectively bargain.”…