When Shakira Samuel was growing up in Westville/West Hills, she didn’t think the helping professions — teaching, nursing, library work — to which little girls were traditionally directed might include the fire service.
Roll the clock ahead a few decades, and on Friday afternoon in a special meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Samuel was voted the first ever female assistant chief in the history of the New Haven Fire Department.
... Gov. Lamont's signing of bill, alongside Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz and State Sen. Kushner.
The bill doesn’t single out female workers as such.
But everyone who took the microphone to speak at a packed, celebratory press conference heralding the expansion of the state’s paid sick days program made clear on Tuesday that this law — freshly signed by the governor — is meant to make Connecticut a more family-friendly place, by helping women stay in the workforce.
Raymond Thompson and Jean Jenkins at Tuesday's meetup.
A rendering of ConnCORP's anticipated Dixwell redevelopment.
Now that the old Dixwell Plaza has been knocked down and remediated, Terrance Lee wants a chance to help build it back up alongside other New Haveners.
by
Laura Glesby |
Apr 17, 2024 2:07 pm
|
Comments
(7)
Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana in court.
Laura Glesby Photo
Edgar Becerra protests his former employer, MDF Painting and Power Washing, before the eviction proceedings.
A judge has ruled that Edgar Becerra and Josue Mauricio Arana must find a new place to live, ending an eviction case that sparked protests over alleged exploitation of migrant workers.
Only one kind of grass allowed for public mower job hopefuls.
City of New Haven job posting
Pre-employment drug test required for seasonal parks caretaker job.
If you want to make $18 an hour cutting grass in the city’s parks this summer, then you better not smoke grass before applying for the job.
Because New Haven requires prospective seasonal parks workers to pass a drug test, including for marijuana, even though recreational cannabis is now legal statewide.
Patricia Clark in her office before retiring: “Yelled” at applicants when “she did not believe them.”
“Happy Hunting!” wrote New Haven’s vital statistics chief Patricia Clark to a federal investigator as she reported yet another immigrant getting married in City Hall.
The city released a 41-page investigatory report on Friday finding that Clark committed misconduct by reporting 93 marriage-seeking couples to federal immigration authorities and denying services to constituents arbitrarily.
Meanwhile, officials announced that Clark evaded disciplinary action by retiring in late February, the day she faced a hearing.
UNITEHERE, the parent of Yale’s politically powerful union locals, issued a statement Thursdsay calling on all hostages to be released and all fighting to stop in Gaza.
by
Laura Glesby |
Feb 23, 2024 9:43 am
|
Comments
(6)
Laura Glesby Photo
Edgar Becerra protests with ULA outside MDF Painting and Power Washing.
“We have human rights,” Edgar Becerra called into a bullhorn, speaking in Spanish. “We have a heart.”
He was surrounded by over 25 immigrant rights activists outside the Branford headquarters of his Fair Haven landlord and former employer — who brought him to the U.S. as a temporary worker, allegedly fired him for work-related injuries, and is now trying to evict him a second time.
Davis-Taylor at Saturday's graduation: Ready for steady work.
Cameron Davis-Taylor is ready to reenter the workforce. This time around, she plans on being a chef.
She had no professional culinary experience until she joined the ConnCAT Culinary Arts Academy half a year ago. Now she knows she is ready to start a business and begin working.
by
Nora Grace-Flood |
Feb 9, 2024 4:51 pm
|
Comments
(2)
Jesenia Rodriguez en route to Capitol: Putting in policy miles to protect future rideshare workers.
“It’s been a journey getting here,” Uber driver Jesenia Rodriguez said as she parked her boyfriend’s stoplight red Toyota across from the state Capitol building.
She was running late. First she had to drop her grandkids off at Jepson School. Then she missed three exits on her way into Hartford while fielding phone calls from fellow rideshare and delivery drivers.
But now she had arrived, with a message to deliver.
by
Laura Glesby |
Feb 6, 2024 2:06 pm
|
Comments
(2)
Laura Glesby Photo
Becerra and Arana: They beat the landlord in court.
A landlord has to start all over again if he still wants to evict two of the Guatemalan temporary workers he brought to Fair Haven to work at his painting company.
Seeking higher ground: former staffer Victor Rios, student Kiana Camacho and friend, and former staffer Nicole Mackin.
Students, staff, and parents at Common Ground High School say the school is going downhill because of high teacher turnover and distrust for administration. The environmental-themed charter school’s board and leaders say they are working to get to the bottom of these concerns.
by
Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 24, 2024 3:06 pm
|
Comments
(7)
Nora Grace-Flood Photo
Seeking justice, Tony Zona readies for jury selection.
A Yale PhD student was asked on the witness stand if he could take a firm and fair stand in a trial of cop against cops.
“What is … ‘fair’?” the graduate student responded to attorneys as jury selection kicked off in a case that will test whether top cops can be held accountable for seeking to retaliate against alleged whistleblowers.
Ofc. Diaz, Sgt. Betsy Segui, and Ofc. Ronald Pressley lifting Cox into wheelchair on June 19, 2022.
(Updated with union comment) State arbitrators have overturned the firing of the police officer who transported Richard “Randy” Cox on a fateful ride that ended up paralyzing Cox and costing New Haven $45 million.
Edgar Becerra in court: "I just want everyone to know the name of this company and all the injustices they did."
Construction boss-landlord Mark DeFrancesco, right, in court with lawyer Josh Brown.
Edgar Becerra fell off a 30-foot ladder — then landed in court this week fighting to stay in the country against a boss who first fired him then moved to evict him.
