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At a recent Local 33 rally on Hillhouse Ave.
Yale graduate teachers and researchers voted overwhelmingly in support of forming a union — marking a local-labor milestone that caps three decades’ worth of organizing for better working conditions on campus.
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Officer Ashley McKernan was two hours into her second consecutive shift Wednesday morning when she finally found a moment to fuel back up for the next hours on the beat.
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Didi Muhammad and Angel Jiminez Monday with New Haven's largest mimosa glass.
Didi Muhammad showed up at New Haven’s “The Place 2 Be” Monday — wielding a mimosa glass large enough for a striped bass to swim in.
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Mario Franco, play money in hand, at Thursday's protest.
A group of highway service plaza workers and union organizers showed up to a Church Street office lobby with $1 million in “cash” as part of a holiday-season pressure campaign against alleged wage theft at Dunkin’ Donuts.
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First in line: Terry Barrett at American Muffler.
AAA flatbed tech Terry Barrett was behind AAA Pizza Wednesday watching someone else complete a task he has done himself thousands of times — replace brakes on a vehicle.
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Nobody tripped over the edge of a rising parking garage and broke his leg or worse Tuesday morning. Jared Hunter was making sure of that.
Continue reading ‘Safety Hunter Keeps Eye On The Rising Tiers’
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Workers pouring a concrete foundation Thursday at 201 Munson.
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Erick Morris: Making change on home turf.
Erick Morris went to work on Munson Street Thursday just as his grandfather did for three decades, albeit with different tools.
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I don’t really know Michael. I know he lives in Connecticut. I know he’s a nurse. I only know that much because he was my nurse for 12 hours from a late Sunday to early Monday.
But for those 12 hours or so he knew me better than anyone because I was almost nothing but pain and he was my companion.
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Jorge Astudillo was upgrading the entrances inside an historic New Haven building — while opening a new door in his own journey of opportunity.
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Bridgette Cunningham started her 24th year working at Yale Monday by rising as usual with her cellphone alarm at 2:20 a.m.
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Two customers were already in the barber chairs with two more waiting not long after Aaron Polanco opened the doors Thursday morning at the male side of Morena Salon and Barber Shop.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: "Blessed," & Ready For Busy Barber Season’
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Jim Turcio looked down from 14 stories above New Haven and marveled at a landscape that has been changing before his eyes — with his OK required at every step.
Continue reading ‘Turcio, City's Building Boom Boss, To Retire’
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Yale Law's Alice Wang and Greg Antill: "Yes" for the union.
One of the few union election signs posted on Yale's downtown campus.
After months of mass public demonstrations in support of a decades-long campus unionization drive, Yale graduate teachers quietly slipped into polling places across downtown to cast their ballots in Local 33’s first election since 2017.
Continue reading ‘Voting Begins In Yale Grad Union Election’
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Valerie Tanner, pictured, helped her cousin Quiana Tanner pitch her local "Try This Pie" bean pie business to attendees at Tuesday's economic summit.
Job creation? Or filling jobs already created?
Economic development gatherings have tended to focus on the first question. A statewide confab held in New Haven Tuesday afternoon pivoted to the latter.
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Paras Union President Hyclis Williams: Looking for "a decent wage for a modest living."
Paraprofessionals who help run the public school district’s before and after school programming will receive an “extra duty” pay hike of more than $10 per hour for their work this school year.
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Luciano Reyes slipped on a Carhartt sweatshirt and a second pair of gloves Tuesday to rescue a paint job on Brownell Street before the temperatures turned colder.
Continue reading ‘The Word On Brownell Street: Call Luciano’
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Groom at work in the Whalley Stop & Shop lot.
Bruce Groom plans to divide his Thanksgiving Day between Stop & Shop and the Veterans Administration hospital.
Continue reading ‘Word On The Street: Groom Plans Hectic Holiday, Needs Car Back’
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Starting with high hopes: Carina Ruotolo in Clemente art classroom in 2012.
Roberto Clemente art teacher Carina Ruotolo wanted to keep teaching in New Haven’s public schools.
But a lack of support during Covid, rapid turnover at the top ranks of her school, and higher pay elsewhere in the state led her to part ways with the district after a decade on the job — reflecting some of the factors fueling a citywide teacher shortage that has the district scrambling to fill classroom spots and keep kids learning.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Love Couldn't Keep Teacher Here’
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DOT Commissioner-to-be Garrett Eucalitto, on the Green in March 2021.
Gov. Ned Lamont has tapped yet another New Havener from within the ranks of his administration to lead a major state government department during his second term.
Continue reading ‘Eucalitto Tapped As State Transportation Chief’
by | Nov 18, 2022 2:28 pm | Comments (54)
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George Ashline: Preparing to winter-proof his tent on Rosette Street.
Fried onions, crispy potatoes and buttered bagels filled the kitchen of the Hill’s Amistad House — and spread a warm, starchy scent along Rosette Street and into the tents of neighbors camped out in the Catholic Workers community’s backyard.
That was the scene on a residential block of the Hill where a crew of “economic refugees” is currently camping out together on a tenth of an acre of land as a means of both fighting for housing justice and seeking sanctuary from shrinking shelter and increasingly harsh and unpredictable New England weather.
Continue reading ‘"Human Rights Zone" Grows In Hill Backyard’
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Jacinto DaGraca overseeing curb and sidewalk work on Winthrop.
The word on Winthrop Avenue Thursday was: sidewalks.
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Outside Tuesday's funeral on Ferry St.
The late city firefighter Thomas Mieles.
Fair Haven families and New Haven public safety professionals filled Ferry Street Tuesday afternoon to mourn the loss of city firefighter Thomas Mieles, whose sudden off-duty passing has only sharpened the pain felt by a community still processing a series of recent deaths.
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Breakfast customers pulled into a clean driveway at Wendy’s for breakfast Tuesday thanks to Patrick Mortley.
Continue reading ‘Butts, Burger King Wrappers Vanish At Wendy’s Drive-Thru’
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Educators rally outside City Hall for full school funding in March.
The Board of Education unanimously approved a new teachers union contract that local educators described as “life-changing” — thanks in large part to a nearly 15 percent pay hike over the next three years.