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Apr 20, 2017 8:09 am
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Jose Crespo and Darryl Brackeen: two sides of the public safety coin.
From the lectern, Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. recalled the time a New Haven police officer grabbed him and yelled at him about riding a red mountain bike.
Coffin (at desk), with other original members of the co-op.
Doug Coffin loves the idea of a new food co-op in New Haven, like the one that opened in the late 1960s and closed in the 1980s. But he doubts people have the interest in “putting in the time and effort that’s needed to sustain such a place” anymore.
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Apr 19, 2017 7:55 am
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The Board of Fire Commissioners promoted 12 new fire captains and 12 lieutenants, but there could be more promotions to those ranks for two very different reasons: a lawsuit by one firefighter, and pending negotiations with the fire union for staffing changes.
Lugo, center, with ULA’s Joseph Foran outside court after ruling.
The megaphone that John Lugo used in front of Atticus on Chapel Street was loud. Lugo admitted that he’d turned it all the way up for maximum effect — and because it was a cheap megaphone.
Its loudness got him a ticket from a New Haven police officer. But he won’t have to pay it, thanks to a judge’s decision.
Mayor Toni Harp has issued a written warning to her chief administrative officer after he thrice told a union official “Let’s take this outside” during a heated meeting.
Workers who keep city police vehicles running and keep park trees trimmed will get modest pay increases for the next five years, but some of those workers will be expected to contribute more toward their retirement, if a newly ratified contract gets alder approval.
Firefighters respond to Beechwood Gardens kitchen fire Monday.
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Alston: Captains up next.
Ten people in the city’s fire department are moving up the ranks thanks to decisions made at Tuesday’s Fire Commission meeting, where out-of-town colleagues were also recognized for pitching in with staffing during a fallen firefighter’s funeral.
Mayor Toni Harp said Monday that Chief Administrative Officer Mike Carter will face unspecified “ramifications” for losing his temper with a union official but she will not heed the union’s call to fire him.
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Mar 31, 2017 12:07 pm
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Brooks: Carter should go.
Carter: “I truly apologize.”
(Updated with police report.) Leaders of city government’s management union called Thursday night for the firing of Chief Administrative Officer Mike Carter after a confrontation that grew heated earlier in the day.
Amid some cries that a city cop should have lost his job for sexually harassing a high school senior, John Velleca praised New Haven’s interim police chief for striking the right balance of discipline.
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Mar 20, 2017 7:46 am
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Clerkin and Melita at the start of Thursday’s hearing.
Mayor Toni Harp’s proposed budget for her office is the same as what alders approved last year. Alders still had a question: How has the adminisitration managed to raise pay for executive staff with minimal to no increase in her budget and without their approval?
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Feb 24, 2017 9:00 am
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Pro-union physics students mourn after the vote.
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Graduate student teachers in at least six — and likely eight — Yale departments voted to unionize Thursday, an opening victory in a longer quest on campus.
By a 2 – 1 vote, the National Labor Relations Board denied a request by Yale for an “expedited review” of a decision that allowed nine “micro-units” of graduate students to vote in unionizing elections Thursday.
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Feb 21, 2017 4:41 pm
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(Opinion) On Thursday, approximately 300 Yale graduate students, teaching fellows in nine departments across campus, will vote on whether Local 33, a union affiliated with UNITEHERE, will represent them in contract negotiations with the University. I am not eligible to vote, because although I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Physics department, one of the departments whose teachers are eligible to vote, I am not currently teaching in Physics. However, if I could vote, I would be voting “no” on Local 33.
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Feb 21, 2017 4:36 pm
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(Opinion) Before coming to Yale in 2014, I hadn’t interacted with a union. Alabama is a right-to-work state, and graduates from my public high school who work at the Mercedes plant didn’t have a union until well after I moved north. So when an organizer with Local 33 — then GESO — came talking graduate student union, I was skeptical. In the three years since, including two years spent organizing friends and colleagues in the History Department, I’ve come to see the promise of forming a union to make Yale a better place for graduate teachers and workers across New Haven.
Twenty-five years after their first attempts to form a union, some of Yale’s graduate student teachers will finally get their chance to vote for one this week, while the university is asking Washington to reconsider allowing the election to take place.
Hartford—Paying minimum-wage workers $15 an hour would drive “the 1 percent” and the jobs they create out of Connecticut, argued a Republican lawmaker from East Haddam. To which a New Haven Democrat shot back: It’s time low-wage workers get a break, too.
Yale’s graduate student teachers — at least those in nine departments — must have the chance to vote on whether to be represented by a union, according to an order issued Wednesday by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
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Jan 19, 2017 11:24 am
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Local 34’s Ford.
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“Yale’s a good job”: 35’s Olson & Tarka after the vote:
The crowd at the Shubert Theater Wednesday night extended the run of a popular local drama — Labor Peace Comes To Yale — by five years, as workers unanimously approved a new contract with increased job security, preserved medical and pension benefits, and modest wage increases.
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Jan 14, 2017 7:07 pm
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Dismissed needle exchange veterans Myers and Bucheli.
There won’t be the same one-on-one attention. Or the same compassionate touch. And the benefits to the city at large — like picking up needles from parks — will be far less. And it’s a short-sighted thing to be doing in the midst of an opiate crisis.