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New pay for subs, as included in 2020-2027 contract.
Pay raises and tuition subsidies — but no health insurance or retirement benefits — are included in a proposed new seven-year contract for substitute teachers that alders have advanced towards a potential final vote.
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YPD strike on the horizon?
The Yale police union has voted 51 – 0 to authorize a strike — as contract negotiations have hit an impasse over pay, drug testing, disability benefits, and timeframes for civilian complaints.
Continue reading ‘Yale Police Union Votes To Authorize Strike’
by | Jun 4, 2025 9:45 am | Comments (12)
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Co-Op music teacher Harriett Alfred (right): "This shows how the teachers are not as revered as they should be."
Barb LeBlanc and Harriett Alfred both wanted to teach in New Haven public schools for at least another two years.
Instead, they’ve put in their retirement papers — in advance of a contract change that will see longtime local educators like themselves lose a portion of their city-covered healthcare benefits.
Continue reading ‘Veteran Teachers Seek Exit Before Benefit Sunset’
by | May 22, 2025 4:45 pm | Comments (9)
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Hearst CT reporters celebrate election results Thursday at Two Roads in Stratford.
(Updated) New Haven Register reporters and their Hearst colleagues from across Connecticut have voted to form a union, and are now seeking to negotiate a contract with their newspaper-chain employer.
by | May 21, 2025 10:01 am | Comments (7)
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At Tuesday morning's Tweed career fair.
Teearra Harris: Stopping by the airport in search of a second job.
Teearra Harris works as an operating room assistant at Yale New Haven Hospital’s St. Raphael’s campus. Her job affords her just enough to get by.
“Another part-time job will really help free me up,” she said at a Tweed New Haven Airport Career Fair, which had as its mission “to connect local job seekers with career opportunities across the airport and aviation industry.”
Continue reading ‘Job Seekers, Not Protesters, Flock To Tweed’
by | May 20, 2025 3:49 pm | Comments (2)
Youth athletics and tutoring nonprofit LEAP is now looking to hire 40 swim instructors to help 800 New Haven kids hit the water this summer.
by | May 16, 2025 9:47 am | Comments (20)
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Alder Anna Festa, right, makes a motion to cut three proposed finance jobs.
Finance Committee alders voted to leave the mayor’s “primarily status-quo budget” primarily as is — while tweaking it to prioritize food aid, street-level maintenance, and reserves for an era of turbulent Trump funding.
That means, overall, spending next fiscal year is on track to increase by 3.63 percent and the local tax rate by 2.3 percent, just as the mayor originally proposed in March.
Continue reading ‘Alders Endorse Mayor's Budget, Mill Rate Bump’
by | May 14, 2025 1:10 pm | Comments (6)
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Teacher Michelle Herrera, 16-month-old Lilah Lubitz, and mom Zoe Lubitz were excited to show up for childcare workers across Connecticut Wednesday morning.
Schiavone (right) addresses the crowd.
“In New Haven, 85 percent of third graders are not reading at grade level. That’s not going to be solved in kindergarten,” said Allyx Schiavone, who spoke Wednesday morning to a crowd of over 200 early childhood advocates, teachers, and parents gathered on the Green.
“There is so much human and brain development that happens between 0 to 5,” she continued, “and so we have to give kids support earlier on.”
Continue reading ‘"Morning Without Childcare" Rally Seeks State $$’
by | May 13, 2025 9:25 am | Comments (3)
Yale won’t be posting any new job openings between May 23 and June 30 — due to a long-planned shift to a new electronic hiring platform, according to university leaders.
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by | May 2, 2025 10:13 am | Comments (17)
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Scenes from Thursday's rally and march.
Wilbur Cross drumline leads the way.
Wilbur Cross drumline bass drum players Aniya, Andrea, and Talia were exhausted — and energized — as they kept the beat while marching down Chapel Street with hundreds of fellow New Haveners to mark an international day of worker solidarity.
by | Apr 25, 2025 4:46 pm | Comments (45)
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Negrón: "Losing sleep" over potential teacher layoffs.
Supt. Madeline Negrón may lay off 129 employees, including 56 teachers, if the state and city cannot close an anticipated $16.5 million budget shortfall for New Haven Public Schools.
by | Apr 22, 2025 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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NHFD Paramedic Keith Kerr treats a man who overdosed on heroin.
As emergency medical response teams across the country struggle with worker shortages, a ceremony at the Yale School of Medicine highlighted a new statewide program meant to boost paramedic recruitment.
Ten of the 44 students who graduated at that Friday ceremony were part of a new, statewide “Earn While You Learn” program — which pays aspiring paramedics as they learn the ropes.
by | Apr 8, 2025 9:26 am | Comments (7)
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Guv Lamont (right) with Teamster 1150 Secretary/Treasurer Rocco Calo.
“Amazon workers are so scared of retribution they are scared to be here, and that’s no way to go through life.”
Here was an energized Monday morning press conference convened at Teamsters Local 443 headquarters at 200 Wallace St.
by | Apr 3, 2025 4:43 pm | Comments (16)
One of six Via cars now operating in New Haven.
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After a decade driving for Uber and Lyft, Moriken Sangary prefers Via's fixed hourly rate and affordability to riders.
A new government-subsidized rideshare-style system has rolled into New Haven, offering on-demand rides for the same price as a bus pass.
by | Mar 18, 2025 3:41 pm | Comments (16)
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ConnCORP's Ian Williams, with ConnCAT's Steve Driffin: This redevelopment project represents "a total transformation" of the corridor.
At work on Monday.
Nearby, underground, in the Construction Academy's new classroom.
As a construction crew worked to lay the foundation for “ConnCAT Place on Dixwell,” redevelopers behind the neighborhood-transforming effort gathered in an underground classroom a few hundred feet away to lay the foundation for a more diverse, locally rooted construction workforce.
Continue reading ‘Dixwell Rebuilders Plan Construction Academy’
by | Mar 4, 2025 8:29 am | Comments (6)
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At January's Local 217 rally at Gateway Center.
Pay raises laid out in the new four-year deal.
The Board of Education unanimously approved a new contract for the school district’s cafeteria workers union that includes a $6‑per-hour raise over four years and stepped-up training for lead cooks.
by | Feb 28, 2025 4:37 pm | Comments (44)
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Antonio Portillo presents demand letter alongside ULA members.
(Updated) A pay dispute at a downtown restaurant ended with a manager threatening to call immigration authorities — and pro-immigration activists showing up to demand respect.
Continue reading ‘Manager Threatens To Call Immigration On Ex-Worker’
by | Feb 27, 2025 3:56 pm | Comments (4)
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State Treasurer Russell: "Prolonged labor conflict could lead to substantial backlash" against Stop & Shop.
A Stop & Shop contract fight in Massachusetts could have spillover effects in New Haven.
That doesn’t mean New Haven workers will be going on strike, but they could be standing in solidarity with striking Teamsters.
by | Feb 7, 2025 7:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Mayor and union prez Cotto haven't always seen eye-to-eye.
In a matter of minutes, with two strokes of a pen, a contract that had taken the city over two years to finalize with the police union was finally made official Friday afternoon.
Continue reading ‘Mayor, Union Prez Ink 6-Year Police Contract’
by | Feb 5, 2025 1:01 pm | Comments (25)
UNITE HERE Prez Gwen Mills: The struggle begins in New Haven.
Standing room only in Dixwell's Trinity Temple.
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Marks addresses the thousand gathered, pushing for Yale and elected officials to back the working class.
“It feels like a boom is happening in this city,” thundered Rev. Scott Marks to a roaring crowd of 1,000 New Haveners overflowing the pews, hugging the walls, and huddling criss-cross on the floors of Trinity Temple Church of God in Christ (COGIC) on Dixwell Avenue Tuesday night.
“But my question is: It’s a boom for whom?”
by | Jan 23, 2025 10:33 am | Comments (3)
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Detective Leonardo Soto, NHPD's longest-serving "special victims" investigator.
The phone awakened Det. Chris Boyle around midnight. His supervisor, Sgt. Cherelle Carr, was calling with a sad story: an 11-month-old baby had overdosed and stopped breathing in an Exchange Street basement apartment.
by | Jan 17, 2025 11:23 am | Comments (5)
Leslie Blatteau at WNHH FM: “If our students have stable housing, our job is going to be less hard in the classroom.”
Leslie Blatteau noticed that 70 percent of New Haven’s teachers live in the suburbs — and saw an opportunity to boost state-level support for New Haven’s schools.
by | Jan 10, 2025 12:41 pm | Comments (5)
Rosado, in 2012.
Miguel Rosado can still remember being a first-grader at Hill Central and marveling at city firefighters as they visited his school for “Fire Prevention Month” to show off a fire engine, climb a ladder, and talk about their work keeping the city safe.
Now the native New Havener is in a position to influence a future generation of potential homegrown firefighters — as well as advocate for his 250-plus colleagues already in the department — as the new president of the city’s firefighters union.
by | Jan 9, 2025 7:10 pm | Comments (7)
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At 54 Meadow: "We are the union... the mighty, mighty union!"
Vereen: "I really didn't think it was going to take this long."
After a full day of preparing students’ meals, John C. Daniels School lead cafeteria cook Latasha Vereen added a coat and scarf to her uniform and headed to the school district’s headquarters — to rally for a new contract and a living wage for public school food service workers.
by | Jan 8, 2025 2:59 pm | Comments (3)
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Jesenia Rodriguez and Frank Douglass: Too many rides, not enough pay.
The riders: five stars. The gig: not so much.
(Hartford) Dwight Alder Frank Douglass and a dozen fellow rideshare drivers from across Connecticut got behind the wheel Wednesday morning — to drive up to the state Capitol and push for higher pay and greater protections from what they say are exploitative practices by Uber and Lyft.