State Representative and vice-chair of the Labor and Public Employees Committee Joshua Hall, D-Hartford, is running for president of the Hartford Federation of Teachers, AFT, following the retirement of Andrea DiBella Johnson. Hall is facing off against Carol Gale, a teacher in Hartford’s Global Communications Academy magnet school and sister ...
The Labor and Public Employees Committee approved a bill that would give public employee unions unfettered access to employees’ personal information and work orientations and would codify union membership cards into state law. The legislation is seen as a push-back by labor unions against the Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in ...
In testimony before the Public Safety and Security Committee, House Republican Leader Themis Klarides, R-Derby, and Rep. Mitch Bolinsky, R-Newtown, said there has been no evidence that the CT AFL-CIO replaced missing funds dedicated to support workers affected by the Sandy Hook shooting. After an audit of the Sandy Hook ...
Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, was treasurer of the John J. Driscoll United Labor Agency during years in which $103,713 of state money dedicated to compensating workers affected by the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting went missing. The Sandy Hook Workers Assistance Fund was originally administered by the Judicial Branch’s Office of ...
Connecticut Department of Correction employees logged 66,447 hours of union leave time over the course of two years, with a total cost of $2.2 million, according to a newly-released audit. In their review, the auditors noted that two employees took what appeared to be “excessive” leave time during the 2016 ...
The Office of the State Treasurer says that it worked with teachers’ union officials, the Governor’s Office and the Office of Policy and Management on pension changes that union officials are now telling their members are “illegal.” Language included in the 2019 Connecticut budget revised the death benefit pension payout for Connecticut teachers who adopt ...