A new union agreement between the state of Connecticut and supervisors in the Department of Children and Families will cost the state $1.2 million per year in annual wage and benefit increases was approved in the Senate and the House of Representatives on March 4. The arbitrated deal has been ...
A bill to classify probate court employees as state employees and allow them to unionize for collective bargaining purposes is currently under consideration by the Labor and Public Employees Committee. An Act Strengthening the Probate Court System would affect roughly 316 probate court employees in 54 probate courts and six ...
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 ...
As debate over privacy issues related to social media continue across the country, in Connecticut a series of union-backed bills would give union leaders continual access to the personal contact information for state employees, home health aides and child care workers. That information includes names, addresses, personal phone numbers, personal ...
What would have been an un-eventful labor contract renewal in the small town of Harwinton became highly-charged altercation on January 18 when AFSCME Council 4 representative Kelly Cashman “stormed” into the office of First Selectman Michael Criss. “She said she would ‘scorch the earth in Harwinton’ and sue me and ...
Three years after SEIU 1199 ignored requests by Connecticut prison nurse Cheryl Spano Lonis to have her dues donated to charity, the union will have to return $2,500 in dues taken from her paycheck. Lonis’ story was first brought to public attention in a Yankee Institute article, which documented her ...