Sam Adler-Bell (http://www.thebellforum.com/authors/sam-adler-bell)
A minimum wage pre-emption measure, backed by the hotel industry and signed by Governor Chafee, has been met with hunger strikes, electoral challenges and protests.


More... (http://www.thenation.com/article/180443/ri-workers-wont-back-down-living-wage-despite-democrats-betrayal)

But last Thursday, just two days after the workers began their strike, Chafee signed the budget—making Rhode Island the first state with a Democrat-controlled legislature to pass a minimum-wage pre-emption measure.

“It’s no secret that the entire Democratic Party doesn’t align itself with American working people,” said Unite Here Local 217 organizer Andrew Tillett-Saks. “Some Democrats do, some do not.”

Gonna have to stop with the qualifers, there can be no confusion in a party on these matters, else what is the purpose of a party? This 'big tent' bullshit, where a party professedly pro-working class, can materially damage that class cannot be allowed a pass. They should be denounced and abandoned.