Labor

After less than two months on the job, the labor relations director for the city of Bridgeport is out.

A report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a decline in labor production across Connecticut last spring. A court is figuring out how to redraw New York’s legislative districts for 2024, a popular festival in New Haven makes its post-pandemic return, and the future of the Connecticut GOP.

A report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows a 2.5% decline in labor production across Connecticut last spring.

While organized labor had high praise for Democratic Governor Ned Lamont at the opening day of the Connecticut AFL-CIO political convention on Thursday, workers urged him to do more to help fill numerous open positions in state government and across the state.

Elva Salazar alleges it was anti-union discrimination that led to her being let go after three years on the job.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Tuesday that she hasn’t decided if she’ll accept a recommendation from a state wage board to lower the number of hours farm workers have to work to earn overtime in New York.

With hundreds of farm owners, farmworkers and independent researchers attending the hearings, over 60% of those who testified wanted the wage board to keep the threshold at 60 hours.

Dawson said the employees had not been rehired in retaliation for their labor organizing activities. She ordered Michell to reinstate the employees to be rehired within 14 days.

A state wage board is set to consider lowering the overtime threshold from 60 hours.

Connecticut business leaders are cautiously optimistic about a post-pandemic future, according to a survey from Connecticut’s largest business group. The…