by Zachary Janowski | Dec 13, 2011 | Features, General
Certain Connecticut daycare owners have until Dec. 20 to vote on whether Service Employees International Union 2001 should represent them in negotiations with the state. The vote, part of a process kick-started by Gov. Dannel Malloy’s executive order nine, began on...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 8, 2011 | Features, General, Health Care
Without fanfare or announcement, Gov. Dannel Malloy has named the members of two working groups that will guide the unionization of home daycare providers and personal care attendants over the next year. The two working groups will meet Friday morning. The Personal...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 2, 2011 | Features, General, Video
The Occupy Hartford protest on the corner of Broad St. and Farmington Ave. lacked protesters Friday afternoon, leaving only a small radio to speak for the movement amid the tents full of trash. “Neither rain nor snow nor dark of night,” one sign promises emptily. At...
by Zachary Janowski | Dec 2, 2011 | Features, General
An economic downturn and 10 percent tax hastily added to the 2010 healthcare reform law combined to end 38 tanning Connecticut businesses in two years, according to an industry group. John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said...