Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives debated for over 12 hours through the night and into the morning before approving an increase to Connecticut’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2023. The…
Fight for 15
Ned Lamont only beat Bob Stefanowski by a little more than 1 percent, but the same voters who gave him a narrow win also voted a massive number of new Democrats into the state legislature.…
While a bill to raise Connecticut’s minimum wage to $15 an hour died in May, legislators may want to consider a new report before resurrecting the idea during the next session. The report by a…
An email sent from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees asked for 25 people willing to be arrested as part of a “fight for $15” strike at McDonalds on Washington Avenue in…
Connecticut’s Terrible, No Good, Very Bad 2015 Legislative Session by Suzanne Bates | Jul 7, 2015 | Yankee News | 0 comments By 1 a.m. on June 30, most of the dark-suited lobbyists had left…