In March of 2019, the City of Hartford won a number of cost-saving provisions in an interest arbitration decision between the city and the Hartford Municipal Employees Association. The stakes were high for Hartford, which in 2017 had been hit with a costly arbitration decision involving the same union that ...
The New Haven Firefighters Local 825 in 2014 paid the Uniformed Professional Fire Fighters Association nearly $26,000 in dues for “legislative representation” at the Capitol, but an internal audit of the UPFFA showed the union only spent $14,133 on legislative representation for all its dues-paying affiliates. That’s according to court ...
The Administrative & Residual Employees Union has reached an interim deal with the state of Connecticut to allow many of its members the ability to work from home part of the week, according to an announcement by A&R and a Frequently Asked Questions page. According to A&R, the union has ...
The United Professional Fire Fighters Association of Connecticut reported $28,223.88 in their political action committee fund in their July 2018 filing with the Connecticut State Elections and Enforcement Commission. By October, all but $517.38 of that money was gone, but the union reported no independent expenditures or disbursements from the ...
A newly-ratified agreement between the Town of Vernon and a town bargaining unit has ended the automatic deduction of union dues from employee paychecks in response to the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision. The agreement between the Town of Vernon and the renamed Directors Independent Unit was approved by ...
During the legislative session lawmakers approved $44 million in raises and benefits through a series of twelve collective bargaining agreements, according to a review of arbitrated labor agreements approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate. That figure includes $10.3 million in wage and benefit increases for 608 newly ...