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New Haven’s 1,373 newest downtown residents arrived to their new lodgings Friday morning welcomed by friendly cops, blaring music, free fruits and water — and a notice that they’re about to live amid a labor-management showdown.
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Are grad students “privileged”? And what happens when a $25 billion-endowed corporation gets to turn the tables on a labor shakedown and shakedown a union and an entire city in return?
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Yale Local 33 members at a recent demonstration.
Graduate student teaching assistants at Columbia University won a ruling Tuesday that may inject new life into the decades-long quest to unionize their contemporaries at Yale.
Continue reading ‘NLRB Ruling Boosts Yale Grad-School Union Drive’
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The following story originally appeared in Spanish in La Voz Hispana Connecticut. It was translated into English by Daniela Brighenti.
Jesarel Calixto, an immigrant hailing from Tlaxcala, Mexico, is the proprietor of his own business Calixto Landscaping, LLC, a company that deals with gardening, tree trimmings and other services. He came to us to report that the nursing home “Paradigm Healthcare” has not paid him sums amounting to $10,000 that it owes Calixto for work performed in its two buildings, located at 181 Clifton St. in New Haven and 310 Terrace Ave.in West Haven.
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Police are looking into a report of a terminated city employee possibly accessing other people’s private personal information from a government computer she took home.
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Menafee Tuesday outside court, gagged, with attorney Kane.
Activists renamed Calhoun College Tuesday.
In the wake of widespread protests, the African-American cafeteria worker who broke a slavery-themed window in Yale’s Calhoun College had criminal charges against him dropped Tuesday and got his job back — on the condition that he forfeit his right to speak publicly.
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Jahazeil Barr and Clayton McDuffie work on the ceiling.
Months before it opens, The “Escape” already got a group of teens busy.
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Menafee appearing on the “Democracy Now!” news.
Corey Menafee, the cafeteria worker who lost his job after smashing a slavery-themed stained-glass window panel in Yale’s Calhoun College, plans to return to work Monday.
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James, second from left, at a June 6 hearing about her potential termination.
As it settled a dispute with Jackie James, the Harp administration distributed a memo aimed at preventing future such episodes.
Continue reading ‘Jackie James Agreement Reached; Memo Warns Managers’
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Menafee Tuesday outside the Elm Street courthouse.
Corey Menafee wants his job back.
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Zamir: “These people aren’t taking it seriously.”
The offending line.
New Haven plans to forgive thousands of dollars of parking fines because a city enforcer — who is now serving a five-day unpaid suspension — wrote “Beat me off” on all their tickets.
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Menafee outside the courthouse.
The African-American cafeteria worker who lost his job after breaking a slavery-themed stained-glass window in Yale’s Calhoun College said he resigned as part of a quid-pro-quo agreement with the university not to pursue charges against him.
He kept his end. He’s still facing charges.
Continue reading ‘Crowd Cries “Free Corey!”; Case Continued’
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The original panel, depicting slaves carrying bales of cotton.
An African-American dishwasher lost his job after breaking a stained-glass panel in Yale’s Calhoun residential college dining hall that depicted slaves carrying bales of cotton.
The dishwasher, Corey Menafee, said he used a broomstick to knock the panel to the floor. He said he was tired of looking at the “racist, very degrading” image.
by | Jul 7, 2016 8:56 am | Comments (1)
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Paollilo speaks from the floor.
Alders decided that when it comes to memoranda of understanding (MOUs) that impact the city’s budget, they know best.
by | Jul 6, 2016 8:06 am | Comments (9)
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Ward: Two months away from owning Vespoli.
Eight-person racing shell.
In two months, Amanda Ward will have worked to sell Vespoli USA racing rowboats for a full year — meaning she will be an owner of the Fair Haven company.
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Campbell (left): Millions at stake. Poindexter: Rules at stake.
The police are set to lose their grant writer for the next three months, after civil service commissioners denied the department’s request for a temporary appointment.
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Yale attorneys press their case.
A parking dispute that has held up construction and job creation in town inched closer to resolution, but only amid new procedural contention between Yale and a union-backed alder.
Continue reading ‘Yale Parking Plan Advances, WIth Bickering Attached’
by | Jun 9, 2016 1:18 pm | Comments (5)
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The orders posted at Dwight Gardens.
The state has slapped contractors working at a second New Haven building project with stop-work orders based on claims of failure to follow worker’s compensation rules.
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The scene at Crown & High.
Fat Cat and Greedy Pig spent their lunch hour on one of downtown’s fastest-changing blocks to make a point about who’s benefiting from New Haven’s construction boom.
by | Jun 8, 2016 7:20 am | Comments (6)
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Harp: Philly-bound.
Pelletier: “Retribution.”
New Haven’s mayor has a trip planned to Philadelphia to help make American political history. The state’s AFL-CIO chief wanted to go, too — but failed in her effort to win an official ticket.
Continue reading ‘Mayor’s In, AFL-CIO Prez Out As Hillary Delegates’
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Nicholas Aiello, local labor hero.
In 1976, a labor organizer named Nicholas Aiello accosted Martin Looney, then a young aide to Mayor Frank Logue, at City Hall.
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A New Haven sweatshop of yore.
The son of a garment worker found a tale of a long-forgotten strike buried in a corner of the public library, and decided more people should have access to the stories of working men and women who built New Haven.
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Shirley Bookert on the job.
Can food service workers be fired for giving hungry students extra food?
No, but they still shouldn’t do it, or else they risk losing federal support.
Continue reading ‘Caf Workers Demand “Real Food, Real Jobs”’
by | May 20, 2016 7:51 am | Comments (31)
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Zucker: 280 construction jobs unnecessarily delayed.
A regulatory denial Thursday night means Yale must start all over with the process of getting zoning approval to construct a new bio lab — and first obtain an OK for a science district parking plan.
Continue reading ‘Science Hill Vote: Labor Wins, Yale Loses’
by | May 13, 2016 2:00 pm | Comments (5)
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Smith (right) with Williams on the job at Dwight Gardens.
Newhallville’s Smart at work.
Darren Smith found his way back to the old Dwight Co-ops with a drill and a T‑square in hand so he could help give his childhood housing complex a second chance — along with his own carpentry dreams.