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 $558 million in the search for a cure to muscular dystrophy, according to the MDA. ...
AFSCME Council 4, which represents nearly 30,000 state and municipal employees in Connecticut, is financially under water, according 2019 federal filings with the Office of Labor Management Standards. The state union currently has liabilities totaling $15 million and only $8.1 million in assets, leaving the organization $6.9 million in the ...
The Hartford Federation of Teachers has abandoned its lawsuit against its administrative employees over their retirement benefits, according to court documents. The case was withdrawn following a change of leadership at the Hartford teachers’ union in which long-time president Andrea DiBella Johnson retired and First Vice-President Joshua Hall and other ...
In an effort to spend down an accumulated $7 million in excess allocations, the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education spent $3.3 million on employee bonuses and furlough compensation, according to a newly-released audit of the community college system. “Between 2010 and 2015, the system office underfunded the colleges’ ...
A bill that would determine prevailing wage rates for large building and highway construction based on “dominant collective bargaining agreements” will likely be voted on by the legislature during special session. Although much attention has been paid to a number of other bills up for vote, An Act Codifying Prevailing ...
An updated study published by the Yankee Institute on Wednesday found that Connecticut government employees earn 28 percent more than comparable private sector employees, largely due to public employees’ generous retirement benefits. That difference adds up to a total of $3.7 billion in tax dollars across all state and local ...