Constance B. Moore has been appointed as chair of its board of directors. Moore, who has served as an independent director on Columbia’s board since 2017, succeeds John L. Dixon, who has served as chair since 2012 and as a member of Columbia’s board of directors since 2008. Dixon has elected to step down as chair but will continue as an independent director on the board. Moore has more than 40 years of experience in the real estate industry, most recently serving as president, CEO, and a board member of BRE Properties. She previously held executive positions with Security Capital Group & Affiliates.
More than 30 Harvard workers and supporters called for contracted employees idled by the pandemic to receive paid leave in the spring during a rally in Harvard Yard Thursday.
32BJ Service Employees International Union, the union representing approximately 1,000 Harvard custodians and security guards, and Local 26, the local chapter of UNITE HERE that represents Harvard dining workers, organized the rally.
The rally occurred one day before some contracted workers at the University will become ineligible to receive emergency pay if their jobs are suspended due to the pandemic, while idled workers who are directly employed by the University will receive up to 70 percent of their pay.
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The coronavirus has taken the lives of over 5,600 Connecticut residents. Urbano Sifuentes of West Hartford was among them. For 25 years, Sifuentes worked as a janitor at the University of Hartford.
Speaking in Spanish, his daughter Rosemary Torres remembered him as a generous man who worked hard and had a great sense of humor.
“He was a very, very loving, very tender man. It has been difficult because it was very surprising the way he left us. It was so sudden. He was always cheerful and always joking around.”
The Sifuentes family emigrated from Peru in 1993 and settled in Connecticut. Torres said her father was one of the many essential workers amid the pandemic, holding down two jobs to provide additional income for their family, ensuring that offices were cleaned and disinfected.
Mall cleaners call on City Center Mall in White Plains to let them keep their jobs
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Dec 21, 2020, 6:14pm EST
Mall cleaners are calling on the
City Center Mall in White Plains to let them keep their jobs.
Kite Realty Group, which owns the
mall, is changing to a different cleaning company on Jan. 1 called Gladiator -
a non-union organization.
Last year,
Westchester County strengthened a law where if there s a change in cleaning and
maintenance companies, workers must be offered a job for at least 90 days.
The cleaners, who
are part of the 32JB Service Employees International Union, say they haven t
Members of 1199 Service Employees International Union, United Healthcare Workers East, participated in the picket.
The picket was held to call attention to the labor-management disagreement over salary raises and health care costs that have stalled negotiations during the pandemic.
The picket took place in two shifts from 2:30-4:30 p.m. and another from 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Mayor Kamal Johnson, Common Council President Thomas DePietro, Mayoral Aide and 3rd Ward Supervisor Michael Chameides, 2nd Ward Alderwoman and Common Council Majority Leader Tiffany Garriga and 4th Ward Supervisor Linda Mussmann were among those in attendance at the first picket.
As many as 70 picketers gathered as the earlier picket progressed, standing and marching on Columbia Street in 20-degree temperatures. Cars and emergency vehicles driving by showed support by honking.