HARTFORD, CT – Connecticut workers shouldn’t have to choose between better working conditions or putting food on the table, union advocates and legislators said at a news conference Thursday. Sen. Julie Kushner, D-Danbury, and Senate President Martin Looney were joined by Connecticut AFL-CIO President Ed Hawthorne, as well as workers and fellow legislators, in advocating for a new bill that would provide unemployment benefits for striking workers.
Advocates, faculty, and students from public institutions of higher learning from across the state gathered Tuesday at the state Capitol in protest of what they view as cuts by Gov. Ned Lamont, and to ask for Connecticut’s fiscal guardrails to be loosened.
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Advocates who hope to help the homeless are running up against the Lamont administration’s adherence to the state spending cap, even as the number of unhoused people continues to increase.