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CT prison workers unions call for heroes pay for pandemic efforts
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Unions representing workers at Connecticut’s prisons want state lawmakers to pay them what is being called “heroes pay” because of the level of exposure they had to COVID-19.
Sal Luciano, president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, said this is for workers at all of the prisons, whether they come in direct contact with inmates or not. For every hour Department of Correction employees have worked since the start of the pandemic, Luciano said, $1 should be added to their paycheck.
Editorial Roundup: New England
Hearst Connecticut Media Editorial Board. April 8, 2021.
Editorial: CT must catch up with times on voting
There shouldn’t be anything partisan about voting rights. In an ideal world, expanding the franchise would be seen as a basic political goal of all parties, with a corresponding need to sell your ideas to an increasingly more diverse array of voters each election cycle.
We’re far from an ideal world, and partisanship is unavoidable even in otherwise unremarkable events. As a result, the move to make voting easier has been embraced by one side of the political aisle and demonized by the other. It’s a trend that is playing out nationally but one to which Connecticut is not immune.
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