by | Jun 12, 2019 5:11 pm | Comments (13)
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Karen Harrison asks about working as a machine tabulator.
Around 100 people showed up for a first-ever poll worker job fair Thursday as part of an effort to improve how New Haven runs its election.
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by | Jun 7, 2019 6:11 pm | Comments (4)
Students protest at Coop.
The New Haven Federation of Teachers plans to file a complaint with the state labor board over some of the 53 transfers of teachers announced last week.
by | Jun 7, 2019 7:43 am | Comments (18)
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Candidate Elicker with seniors at a campaign event this week.
Casinos don’t equal smart government investments.
by | Jun 5, 2019 6:55 pm | Comments (46)
More than a hundred students walked out of Hill Regional Career High School with pleas to save their history and music instructors from planned transfers, while ministers defended the school superintendent’s decisions and called out protesters’ “agendas” and “privilege.”
by | Jun 3, 2019 9:50 pm | Comments (26)
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Inspired by red-state teacher rallies, protesters wear #RedforEd.
The Board of Education demanded more information about the impact of a plan to eliminate 53 teaching positions — after hearing outrage at a demonstration where 150 teachers and students called for dismissing the schools superintendent instead.
by | May 30, 2019 4:56 pm | Comments (40)
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Displaced teachers, late, hustle to Central Office for Thursday meeting.
New Haven will have at least 50 fewer teachers in its schools next year — but it may be able to get there without any current teachers losing their jobs.
by | May 30, 2019 3:30 pm | Comments (11)
Applicant Pascale.
Six candidates — including three women, two of them African-American — were on their ways to becoming New Haven cops when an alleged bureaucratic back-up sent them packing.
by | May 29, 2019 7:08 am | Comments (4)
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Tom Burns: Taking his complaint to the higher-ups.
Representatives from the national American Federation of Teachers headquarters are investigating a complaint that New Haven’s recent election might have been tainted by a newsletter column and a ballot storage snafu.
by | May 28, 2019 12:59 pm | Comments (5)
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Robyn Porter at Tuesday’s signing.
Gov. Ned Lamont Tuesday signed into law a hike in the hourly minimum wage to $15 by June 2023.
by | May 22, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (2)
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Anthony Campbell.
Anthony Campbell is returning to Yale for a third stint — this time as a top cop.
by | May 16, 2019 5:11 pm | Comments (18)
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Another top cop is leaving the force. Another assistant chief, in fact.
by | May 16, 2019 8:00 am | Comments (6)
The city’s management and professional employee union is now 35 members smaller thanks to a decision from the Connecticut Board of Labor Relations.
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by | May 13, 2019 8:33 pm | Comments (5)
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Edith Carapia (right) and ULA organizer John Lugo.
Monday’s protest.
A former housekeeper at a Chapel Street hotel has filed two anti-discrimination complaints against her old employer for allegedly firing her for speaking out about years of workplace prejudice against Mexican employees.
Continue reading ‘Former Study Housekeeper Alleges Workplace Discrimination’
by | May 13, 2019 12:10 pm | Comments (6)
Max Comando and Julia Miller, two social studies teachers at Metro.
While he was completing his master’s program at the University of New Haven, Max Comando interned at Hill Regional Career High School. He taught whole units by himself over weeks, but he recognized that he was using someone else’s material.
by | May 13, 2019 7:23 am | Comments (14)
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Robyn Porter with constituents at Three Brothers.
Twenty hours after State Rep. Robyn Porter led the charge to get a $15 minimum wage through the Connecticut House of Representatives, she sat with constituents in the Three Brothers Diner relishing a years-in-the-making victory. The victory was checked only by a compromise proponents had to make, which exempted from the raise the servers bringing plates of eggs and toast.
Continue reading ‘332,000 May Get Raises. Waiters Will Wait’
by | May 9, 2019 11:59 am | Comments (3)
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Former Chief Campbell with recruits at the academy.
The city has formally posted a job description in its search to replace recently retired New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell.
The posting doesn’t mention the exodus of officers from the department or the tenndetious three-year absence of a new union contract. It does describe a “40-hour”-per week gig with a salary to be determined.
by | May 6, 2019 9:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Matteson at City Hall Monday.
Sean Matteson can finally take the “acting” off the chief administrative officer (CAO) title he’s been wearing for the last six months. Thanks to a vote Monday night by the Board of Alders, he is now permanently installed in that position.
by | May 5, 2019 12:15 am | Comments (13)
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Recruits filing in and sounding off at Friday’s graduation.
Harp.
Twenty-seven men and women marched into the auditorium at Hillhouse High School police recruits and walked out rookie cops.
by | May 3, 2019 6:13 pm | Comments (9)
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Cotto along with police union members on the steps of 1 Union Ave.
The city’s police union Friday charged that the city is holding up contract negotiations and possibly violating off-the-record negotiating rules.
by | May 3, 2019 6:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Friends of Stephanie Washington, who was shot by a Hamden cop, protest outside the PD.
Amid public outcry over an officer-involved shooting and police death and deportation threats made to a Latino driver, Hamden Mayor Curt Leng has named a committee to help him pick a new chief — and invited the public to help.
Continue reading ‘Committee Named, Public Input Sought In Police Chief Search’
by | May 3, 2019 4:42 pm | Comments (2)
Facing tough fiscal times, Hamden’s Town Hall and library workers have agreed to take furlough days and defer raises in return for protections against layoffs and further concessions.
by | May 3, 2019 6:51 am | Comments (6)
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Matteson makes his pitch for permanent CAO at City Hall.
Sean Matteson got a second chance to convince alders that he’s not the political operative that they remember under a previous mayor, but the hands-on manager to help the mayor run an efficient government that saves money and gets things done.
Continue reading ‘Matteson Wins Over Skeptic, Department Heads’
by | May 2, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (19)
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Harp blasts the police union (above) while Elm City Local President Florencio Cotto Jr. (below at right) and colleagues stand by.
Mayor Toni Harp came out swinging Thursday at the police union officials, challenging them to return to the negotiating table over a new contract rather than, in her view, taking pot shots at her.
by | Apr 25, 2019 11:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Hundreds of local Stop & Shop workers unanimously approved a new contract Thursday night that preserves employee healthcare and pension benefits, as well as time-and-a-half pay on Sundays.
by | Apr 25, 2019 9:40 pm | Comments (20)
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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Thursday afternoon to demand justice from Yale for an unarmed couple recently shot by a university police officer and a Hamden police officer.
Continue reading ‘Protesters Demand Yale Deliver On Promises’