One of organized labor’s two legislative priorities in 2022 — a ban on “captive audience” meetings that unions say are used to thwart organizing — won final passage late Friday night.
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Labor: Lamont budget fails to recognize workers who braved the pandemic
Essential workers were recognized in Gov. Ned Lamont’s latest state budget, but they would receive much less aid than they sought.
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New team set to take over leadership of AFL-CIO in Connecticut
Connecticut’s AFL-CIO is about to get a millennial as president and a Black woman as executive vice president.
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In an evolving economy, lawmakers take roles once played by unions
Economic trends and union struggles are pushing lawmakers to resolve through legislation questions once answered by collective bargaining.
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Are Lamont and his fellow Democrats headed for a showdown over tax reform?
Gov. Ned Lamont says tax hikes on the wealthy will cause them to flee Connecticut. Other Democrats are challenging that.
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Lamont and his party don’t see eye-to-eye on secrecy rules for partnerships with private sector
While Gov. Ned Lamont is determined to partner with the private sector, Democratic lawmakers are wary of easing transparency rules.
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Union agency paying back money missing from Sandy Hook Workers Fund
A state audit requested by a Republican lawmaker revealed that funds meant to support workers present at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting were not used appropriately.
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Labor applauds the Greenwich governor it helped elect
Connecticut’s millionaire governor delivered a populist message Friday in his first appearance before the AFL-CIO since taking office.
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Labor, business and the courtship of Ned Lamont
Lamont has sided with the rich on taxes and the working poor on the minimum wage. This has left his friends in progressive politics to wonder at times what values lay at his core.
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AFL-CIO chief: Lamont would roll back contracting corruption safeguards
One of Connecticut’s highest-ranking labor officials accused Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration of trying to roll back clean-contracting reforms enacted in response to the scandal that toppled the Rowland administration. {Updated at 1:35 p.m. with comments from Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration.}
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The millionaire-with-a-suitcase: man or myth?
For nearly a decade, it has been the favorite argument of those opposed to higher state taxes for Connecticut’s wealthy — migration. Simply put, if you tax them, they will leave.
But is it true?
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Democrats, labor use Trump and Stefanowski as motivation
Democrats running for key state and federal offices fired up Connecticut’s largest labor coalition Friday, painting President Donald Trump and GOP gubernatorial nominee Bob Stefanowski as major threats to the left’s core values.
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With labor, Lamont carefully treads a path blazed by Malloy
Ned Lamont has spent months trying to distance himself from the unpopular Democratic governor he hopes to succeed, but when it comes to the public-sector unions that bedeviled his predecessor, Lamont faces the same dilemma: How to keep labor’s support in difficult fiscal times?
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Labor says ‘tax fairness,’ vibrant cities are keys to CT’s recovery
Labor leaders called Friday for a more progressive state tax system and greater investments in Connecticut’s cities to revitalize the economy and stabilize the budget.
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AFL-CIO chief suspects fiscal panel is anti-labor
Connecticut’s top labor official questioned publicly Thursday whether the state’s new fiscal sustainability study panel is biased in favor of business and against labor, but the panel’s co-chairs say they want to hear from everybody.