Archive: Feb 2017

  1. Labor Unions Unite Against Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill

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    Under attack for decades of bad decisions regarding their pensions, Connecticut’s labor unions are uniting to fight back against a bill that would exempt retirement benefits from collective bargaining.

  2. Bill to Repeal Collective Bargaining over Pensions and Health Care

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    Anti-worker politicians in the Connecticut legislature are trying to silence the voices of teachers, firefighters and all public employees and strip their rights to negotiate a better future. A proposed bill would roll-back the ability to collectively bargain over pensions or medical insurance, stealing working families’ access to affordable care or retirement security.
    Join us at the public hearing on this bill and help build resistance to attacks on working families at the State Capitol:

    WHEN: Tuesday, February 21 beginning at 2:00PM (the hearing will run into the evening, so come when you can).
    WHERE: The Legislative Office Building, located next to the State Capitol in Hartford at 300 Capitol Avenue (free parking is available in the adjacent garage).
  3. Unions Chafing At Malloy’s Direction

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    Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has cultivated a national reputation as a passionate progressive on social issues. From transgender rights and immigration to abortion and criminal justice policy, he has been an enthusiastic ambassador for the Democratic party’s liberal wing – and a vocal opponent of President Trump’s agenda.

  4. Reject Betsy DeVos’s Nomination

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    The AAUP urges the United States Senate to reject Betsy DeVos’s nomination as education secretary.

    Given her documented lack of qualifications and hostility to public education, DeVos is manifestly unqualified for the position. In both ideology and practice she has violated the principles of quality education that the AAUP has defended for over a century. Far from seeing our public schools as a valuable asset, DeVos understands them instead as a source of revenue to fill the pockets of corporate school entrepreneurs. Her privatization schemes have done much damage in several states, especially Michigan. They treat students as widgets in a machine to produce a profit for well-heeled investors. In Ohio, DeVos broke the law by knowingly making illegal campaign contributions through her school choice PAC, resulting in a fine of over $5 million that has yet to be repaid eight years later. This brings her personal ethics and responsibility into question

  5. Malloy Will Pitch Changes To Education Formula

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    NEW BRITAIN, CT — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy offered a preview Monday of what municipalities and school districts can expect when it comes education aid.

  6. Abandoned by Republicans, Democrats Get Pension Agreement Over The Finish Line

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    HARTFORD, CT—Republican legislative leaders added a lot of uncertainty to the fate of a deal to restructure the financing of state employee pensions Wednesday when they released their own plan mid-afternoon.