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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Connecticut’s teachers’ unions are angered over changes to how the state calculates teacher pension death benefit payments for spouses and are working behind the scenes to reverse the reforms, according to emails obtained by Yankee Institute. When a retired teacher passes away, the Connecticut Teachers Retirement Board cuts a lump-sum ...
When Phuong Nguyen, a fiscal administrative officer for the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission, planned to attend the December 7, 2018 holiday party held by the Administrative and Residual Employees Union Local 4200, she was told by union president John DiSette that she was not welcome. Nguyen had informed the union ...