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    News Article ● Labor Unionization

    Video: Face the Facts: Captive Audience Meetings and Pandemic Pay for Frontline Workers

    March 16, 2022 // NBC Connecticut's American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Ed Hawthorne talks about the deal that's on the table and another measure that's being discussed.

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    Op-ed ● Unions

    Deals with CT unions focus on keeping workers, not streamlining workforce

    March 10, 2022 // Those bonuses aren’t the hazard or premium pay unions have sought for front-line workers who couldn’t telecommute during the worst of the coronavirus pandemic. Labor leaders and the administration still are negotiating that issue, and special pandemic pay still might be awarded in the future.

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    News Article ● Unions

    Labor unions send message to Lamont: Keep CT public-sector jobs

    December 4, 2021 // With 2022 looming as a watershed year, state employee unions and their allies are moving preemptively to stop Gov. Ned Lamont from accelerating the public sector’s decline in Connecticut.

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