“Happy Hunting!” wrote New Haven’s vital statistics chief Patricia Clark to a federal investigator as she reported yet another immigrant getting married in City Hall.
The city released a 41-page investigatory report on Friday finding that Clark committed misconduct by reporting 93 marriage-seeking couples to federal immigration authorities and denying services to constituents arbitrarily.
Meanwhile, officials announced that Clark evaded disciplinary action by retiring in late February, the day she faced a hearing.
UNITEHERE, the parent of Yale’s politically powerful union locals, issued a statement Thursdsay calling on all hostages to be released and all fighting to stop in Gaza.
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Feb 23, 2024 9:43 am
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“We have human rights,” Edgar Becerra called into a bullhorn, speaking in Spanish. “We have a heart.”
He was surrounded by over 25 immigrant rights activists outside the Branford headquarters of his Fair Haven landlord and former employer — who brought him to the U.S. as a temporary worker, allegedly fired him for work-related injuries, and is now trying to evict him a second time.
Cameron Davis-Taylor is ready to reenter the workforce. This time around, she plans on being a chef.
She had no professional culinary experience until she joined the ConnCAT Culinary Arts Academy half a year ago. Now she knows she is ready to start a business and begin working.
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Feb 9, 2024 4:51 pm
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“It’s been a journey getting here,” Uber driver Jesenia Rodriguez said as she parked her boyfriend’s stoplight red Toyota across from the state Capitol building.
She was running late. First she had to drop her grandkids off at Jepson School. Then she missed three exits on her way into Hartford while fielding phone calls from fellow rideshare and delivery drivers.
But now she had arrived, with a message to deliver.
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Laura Glesby |
Feb 6, 2024 2:06 pm
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A landlord has to start all over again if he still wants to evict two of the Guatemalan temporary workers he brought to Fair Haven to work at his painting company.
Students, staff, and parents at Common Ground High School say the school is going downhill because of high teacher turnover and distrust for administration. The environmental-themed charter school’s board and leaders say they are working to get to the bottom of these concerns.
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Jan 24, 2024 3:06 pm
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A Yale PhD student was asked on the witness stand if he could take a firm and fair stand in a trial of cop against cops.
“What is … ‘fair’?” the graduate student responded to attorneys as jury selection kicked off in a case that will test whether top cops can be held accountable for seeking to retaliate against alleged whistleblowers.
(Updated with union comment) State arbitrators have overturned the firing of the police officer who transported Richard “Randy” Cox on a fateful ride that ended up paralyzing Cox and costing New Haven $45 million.
Edgar Becerra fell off a 30-foot ladder — then landed in court this week fighting to stay in the country against a boss who first fired him then moved to evict him.
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Dec 16, 2023 8:43 pm
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(Updated) Yale’s graduate teachers and researchers voted to ratify their first ever union contract with the university by a tally of 1,705 to 10 — making official a new five-year agreement that will see PhD students get at least 15 percent pay bumps and dental insurance, among other provisions.
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Dec 13, 2023 12:15 pm
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Earl McCoy, Sr. grabbed a rung on the phone company ladder, lifting other Black New Haveners along with him into lives of stable employment at a livable wage.
He and other SNET “legends” connected offline to reflect on that journey, and where it’s headed today.
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A local financial consultant and recent Westville alder candidate is suing the city for keeping non-residents in New Haven’s top financial offices — and is pushing to push out the current controller and tax assessor in the name of improved municipal fiscal management and compliance with the city charter.
Mayor Justin Elicker has responded by pressing the importance of keeping the most qualified people in those jobs amid a shortage of applicants, and has denied that the city is violating the charter as his administration seeks to keep those finance roles filled.
Yale’s graduate teacher and researcher union has reached a tentative agreement with the university, which, if approved by a majority of its members, will grant the union its first ever contract — and will see PhD students receive at least 15 percent pay bumps and dental care, among other provisions.
Three months after Yale New Haven Hospital’s cleaning contractor suddenly laid off nearly 50 of its mostly-Latino employees, about a dozen of those former cleaners protested at the main entrance of the hospital.
A state arbitration panel has ruled that ex-police Sgt. Shayna Kendall should get her job back after finding that the city did not have “just cause” to fire her for allegedly lying about a traffic stop-turned-civilian complaint.
Some 86,000 jobs are going begging in Connecticut, many of them paying a living wage and not requiring a college degree. Thousands of people without college degrees need those jobs. So put those people in the jobs — simple, right?