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Rosana Olan and Lida Batista, ready for change.
Thirteen Uber and Lyft drivers gathered on the Green by the corner of Chapel and College Street Thursday to describe mistreatment on the job, and vow to take joint action.
by | Nov 3, 2020 9:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Harriet Welfare is ready for Ward 25 voters.
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Gabriell Matos: Young person’s turn to step up.
Twenty-year-old Gabriell Matos, dressed in full PPE gear, was stationed outside Bishop Woods School Tuesday morning. He held the door open to voters and pumped out hand sanitizer to all.
by | Nov 3, 2020 6:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Charlie Delgado (right).
Local labor organizer Charlie Delgado returned to an apartment complex in “the slums of Miami” looking for a voter named Robert.
He had an important message to deliver: Robert’s fines related to a past felony conviction had been paid off, and, unbeknownst to him, Robert could vote in this year’s election.
Continue reading ‘Local Labor Organizers Make Swing State Push’
by | Oct 30, 2020 3:55 pm | Comments (10)
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Women’s suffrage speaker greets workers at plant entrance, ca. 1916.
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Cavanagh, Criscola outside ex-factory entrance; their new book (below).
If you closed your eyes, you could imagine hearing the factory whistle blow and seeing thousands of workers streaming past Joan Cavanagh and Jeanne Criscola the other day.
by | Oct 23, 2020 4:58 pm | Comments (2)
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School cafeteria workers posing with Mayor Justin Elicker on the front steps of City Hall.
Over a dozen public school cafeteria workers served up a petition to the mayor Friday in a push to save their jobs, and keep New Haven school children fed, during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Continue reading ‘Lunch Ladies Serve Up Jobs Petition To City Hall’
by | Oct 20, 2020 12:32 pm | Comments (0)
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Paraprofessionals Albert Alston and Hyclis Williams at recent protest.
The Board of Alders all-but-unanimously approved a new four-year paraprofessionals union contract that will see entry-level members get a roughly $1,000 raise by 2023.
Continue reading ‘Paras Contract Approved; Sidewalk $ Accepted’
by | Oct 16, 2020 12:06 pm | Comments (12)
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Buccitti: State “putting dollars ahead of human life.”
Bus drivers have begun opening the front doors to allow passengers to enter and pay their fares again — and many feel unprotected against catching the coronavirus.
by | Oct 15, 2020 4:53 am | Comments (4)
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On the rebuild: 6 new recruits swOrn in last month.
New Haven’s police commission took a step this week to try to reverse the “blue exodus” that decimated the department’s ranks and sent trained officers to Hamden and other neighboring forces.
by | Oct 13, 2020 10:14 am | Comments (2)
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Paraprofessionals Hyclis Williams and Albert Alston at recent protest.
A new four-year contract for the city’s paraprofessionals union that would see entry-level members get a roughly $1,000 raise by 2023 advanced towards an expected full Board of Alders vote later this month.
by | Oct 9, 2020 4:35 pm | Comments (10)
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Jameson White, Martin Looney, Alex Taubes.
This week, two New Haveners stood outside of buildings in varying stages of construction or decay that they said symbolize the problems the state faces — and the problems that they are running for the State Senate to fix.
by | Oct 5, 2020 11:20 pm | Comments (58)
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Streicker (center right) with police union supporters.
The city’s police union waded into political waters with a rare election-year endorsement — throwing its weight behind Republican Congressional candidate Margaret Streicker, whom the union’s president praised for her unwavering support for officers amid nationwide protests against police brutality.
by | Oct 5, 2020 9:22 am | Comments (7)
Canvassers including Feldman (below) at Dixwell HQ kick-off.
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Abby Feldman is about to move to Philadelphia for October to knock on doors for Joe Biden — and she’s a little nervous about uprooting her life for a month.
But if there was ever an election to temporarily pull up stakes for, this upcoming presidential race is it, she said. “The time is now.”
by | Sep 30, 2020 3:13 pm | Comments (5)
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$3,092,389: That’s the average yearly income for the top 1 percent of Connecticut households — 41 times what the average household in Connecticut makes.
These findings cpme from an annual report released Wednesday by Connecticut Voices for Children (CT Voices).
by | Sep 30, 2020 10:04 am | Comments (3)
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Construction work on the new Q House.
New Haven’s minority small-contractor program helped Booker Washington launch his business. But he could have used help navigating the program — help participants in a virtual “town hall” suggested giving a new generation of Black, brown, and female entrepreneurs.
by | Sep 27, 2020 9:49 am | Comments (1)
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Ten new certified phlebotomists and ten chefs are plunging into the workforce after graduating Saturday as the Cohort VIfrom the Connecticut Center for Arts and Technology (ConnCAT).
Continue reading ‘ConnCAT Sends Chefs, Phlebotomists Into Workforce’
by | Sep 25, 2020 12:25 pm | Comments (3)
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Local Stop & Shop workers with U.S. Sen. Dick Blumenthal at a July event seeking hazard pay.
Stop & Shop workers have won a second round of extra hazard-duty pay for service during the Covid-19 pandemic’s summer months.
by | Sep 21, 2020 4:07 pm | Comments (5)
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Drivers like Valentine Perez, pictured, have had trouble enforcing the mask-wearing rule for riders.
Starting in two weeks, you’re going to have to pay to ride CTtransit buses again — and you’ll be able to board at the front.
Continue reading ‘Buses Revert To Regular Boarding, Fare Collection’
by | Sep 18, 2020 10:36 am | Comments (11)
Investigators seeking to get to the root of a whodunit have photographed four baggies filled with contraband — batches of chemically altered nightshades.
But they didn’t actually seize the evidence — for fear of stinking up police headquarters.
by | Sep 16, 2020 9:31 pm | Comments (14)
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New Haven has worked out another contract change with bus company First Student, this time to pay them 85 percent of their usual rate when buses are idle due to Covid-related school closures. The district would pay the company 55 percent of the rate if drivers are furloughed.
The New Haven Public Schools Board of Education voted 5 – 2 for the new terms on Wednesday at a special meeting, with Darnell Goldson and Tamiko Jackson-McArthur opposed.
Continue reading ‘Schools To Pay 85% For This Year’s Idle Buses’
by | Sep 15, 2020 9:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Marcus Paca, on the campaign stump in 2017.
A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court’s decision that former Mayor Toni Harp did not discriminate against former Labor Relations Director Marcus Paca when she fired him in 2016 for alleged insubordination.
by | Sep 15, 2020 5:05 pm | Comments (4)
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Logan and Cabrera on the campaign trail.
George Logan and Jorge Cabrera agree about one thing: Families in Connecticut’s 17th State Senate District struggle with the costs of living.
But when it comes to what to do about it, one promotes paid family medical leave and a $15 minimum wage. The other argues those policies choke businesses, and tax dollars, out of the state.
by | Sep 9, 2020 4:07 pm | Comments (14)
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The New Haven Police Department (NHPD) swore in six new faces of the future Wednesday afternoon with the responsibility of “dealing with the realities of what it means to put on the uniform,” in the words of Chief Otoniel Reyes.
by | Sep 3, 2020 3:52 pm | Comments (34)
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Mory’s on York Street.
As Mory’s private eating club reopened its doors this week, it instructed customers not to tip the help — but instead to pay a 20 percent “house charge” that may or may not make its way back to the servers, bartenders and bussers.
by | Aug 31, 2020 11:44 am | Comments (13)
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Isadora Milanez leads protesters in a chant.
Reyna Ortiz wants her job back.
When the Covid-19 pandemic hit New Haven in March, Reyna Ortiz lost her job waiting tables at the Omni Hotel. She also lost the health insurance she relies on to pay for her son’s insulin.
After several tough months, she stood alongside her coworkers across from her former workplace in a fight to get her job back.
by | Aug 31, 2020 9:18 am | Comments (12)
Officer Bandy on the set of his weekly podcast.
Officer Jason Bandy, a decade-plus veteran of the local police force who hosts a regular podcast promoting QAnon and other extremist anti-government conspiracy theories, retired from the New Haven Police Department effective August 27.