New AFSCME Local 3144 President Malinda Figueroa hugs supporter Sally Brown after union election results are announced early Saturday morning.
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Cherlyn Poindexter.
A challenge slate of public employees calling for more democratic, transparent union leadership came into power on Friday night after a municipal union election saw an end to the current president’s eight-year tenure.
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Oct 19, 2017 4:45 pm
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Union members and allies cheer during Thursday’s rally.
UNITEHERE members rallied on Yale University’s Cross campus Thursday as part of a national day of action to support union jobs particularly in the service industry.
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Oct 16, 2017 1:01 pm
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NHPD’s new fentanyl kits, including gloves, a sleeve, a respirator mask, a biohazard container and a baggie.
Every New Haven police officer will now have the equipment to handle small doses of fentanyl, a highly potent drug that has sickened cops and nurses who’ve come into contact with it.
A “fat cat” in a plush three-piece suit dangled and strangled a working guy in a yellow construction helmet on Grand Avenue the other day.
The cat and worker were 15-foot-tall cartoon characters full of compressed air and bobbing in the breeze. But the display was no joke no joke. The blow-up figures were deployed Thursday afternoon by members and supporters of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters (NERCC) in support of Terail Slaughter, a non-union carpenter who had been employed helping to build the tower buildings of the Housing Authority of New Haven’s Farnam Court Townhouses rebuilding project.
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Oct 4, 2017 7:55 am
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ATU’s Jerry Pizunski explains blindspot problem with bus rearview mirrors.
CT Transit bus drivers rallied on the New Haven Green Tuesday to demand better bus design and more safety features. They left the Green with a commitment from management to meet later this week about how to make buses safer.
Casanova and Campbell at recent commission meeting.
In the second such drama in eight months on the third floor of 1 Union Ave., Police Chief Anthony Campbell has requested an internal affairs investigation of Assistant Chief Luiz Casanova and temporarily removed him from his responsibilities overseeing the training academy.
A tattoo street battle came to Upper State Street, where a new combination parlor-school is offering classes that rub traditional skin-ink artists the wrong way.
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Jul 20, 2017 8:18 am
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Workers march outside the Fair Haven Heights factory a week before voting on a new contract.
Unionized textile workers lost guarantees against outsourcing in their latest contract, but the factory owners assured employees they wouldn’t need the protections.
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Jul 13, 2017 2:29 pm
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Officer Borisova, who vets recruits.
The police department is starting to sweat about the number of recruits for its next class, after it hemorrhaged hundreds of applicants in the very first step: the physical fitness test.
Roughly half of this year’s 1,223 applicants didn’t make it past the first round: 155 failed the physical agility test and another 393 didn’t show up at all, reported Officer Yelena Borisova, who conducts background investigations. Another 675 are still in the running.
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Jul 11, 2017 8:30 am
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Clerkin at a June City Hall meeting.
Joe Clerkin announced that he’s leaving the city, while attending to a final piece of business — helping to shepherd through approval of two more municipal labor contracts.
Police Chief Anthony Campbell passed over the third top scorer in the recent lieutenant exams to make 13 promotions — because of her integrity as an internal affairs investigator, her lawyer charged.
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Jun 23, 2017 7:30 am
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Daniels: Hoping this time he’s headed to the New Haven Police Academy.
More than 40 people braved the heat of the first day of summer at Bowen Field pushing their bodies to prove their physical readiness to become future New Haven police officers.
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Clerkin presents Local 844 contract at Thursday night’s hearing.
A city union that represents over 400 emergency dispatchers, school security guards, and a diverse array of public administrative and clerical staff has come to a new collective bargaining agreement with the city after working without a contract for nearly two years.
The city’s health department is closing down its “Healthy Start” and “MOMS Partnership” programs and has issued layoff notices to six employees who staffed them.
Era of continual change: The last-ever locally printed Register front page rolls off the former presses at 2:21 a.m. on March 4, 2012.
Hearst prez Aldam.
As print-daily newsrooms continue to shrink across the nation, the New Haven Register’s new corporate boss said he plans to add reporters and increase local coverage.
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Rahgue Tennant congratulates top tester Wayne Bullock.
All but one of the New Haven police sergeants who took the civil service exam to become lieutenants passed it. Now it will be up to the chief to determine who actually gets to pin on the new rank.
