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 ...
The Hartford Federation of Teachers, AFT, is fighting a multi-year court battle with its own unionized office employees over wage and retirement benefits, pitting the teachers’ union against its own affiliate organization, the AFL-CIO. At issue is the severance package owed to HFT office employees under their collective bargaining agreement ...
Rep. Anne Hughes, D-Easton, hosted a pool party for the Connecticut Working Families Party at her home in Easton – listed as a 4,900 square foot, 12-acre “magical estate” called “Fiddledale,” according to Realtor.com — on August 24 to wrap up the summer. Hughes, who ran on both the Democratic ...
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 Connecticut Board of Labor Relations approved full day union business leave and pay for union officials to attend an August 31 Connecticut AFL-CIO convention in Hartford that was scheduled to last only three hours, according to documents obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request. A total of 47 ...
Government union officials and executives were compensated for a full day of union business leave during a three hour union convention.