Every year, fire fighters across the country participate in the Fill the Boot campaign, standing outside stores or on street corners raising cash for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Since 1954 the charity drive has raised…
CDM Smith, the engineering consultant company that has authored two tolling studies for the state of Connecticut, is a dues-paying member of an international organization who’s stated purpose is “to create a political environment that…
Ferguson Contractors is a large construction firm that has worked on major public works projects including the Buley Library at Southern Connecticut State University and the UConn Health Center Research Tower. But Ferguson now faces…
It’s 5 A.M. when I find my way to an empty parking garage in New Britain across the street from CTFastrack’s bus terminal, which is lit up like the Las Vegas strip in the morning…
Imagine a workplace in which you feel it necessary to video-record yourself making a trip to the bathroom in case you are confronted by colleagues; where employees allegedly hire private investigators to follow each other…
Cheryl Spano Lonis has been a nurse in Connecticut's prison system for 19 years and a member of the New England Health Care Employees Union 1199. But when she tried to opt out of union…
The resignation of Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin Sullivan has left Marilee Corr Clark, DRS’s Tax Legal Director, “terrified.” Her concern is that as Sullivan steps down and Deputy Commissioner Joseph Mooney temporarily takes…
Connecticut’s Whiting Forensic Hospital was forced to rehire employees terminated in 2009 and 2010 for the abuse of state psychiatric patients after grievance arbitrators overturned management decisions, according to documents obtained through a freedom of…
J-Con Woodworking, based out of Thomaston, Connecticut, opened in 1983 and quickly became a premier manufacturer of cabinets in Connecticut. Marquis (Mark) Converse and his wife Hilary ran the small shop, which employed more than…
