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By Mark Pazniokas, CT Mirror
The advance of an ambitious labor agenda in the General Assembly is delighting social-justice warriors energized by the tumult of the times but it is rattling conservatives and some moderates fearful of Connecticut emerging from a recession branded as hostile to business.
A confluence of factors is driving the labor bills, beginning with Democrats reversing losses that had left them with a paralyzing tie in the Senate in 2017 and 2018, followed by the reckoning brought by COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd in 2020.
“I just think it’s the time,” said Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, a member of the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus. “It’s everything that’s happening. It’s COVID. It’s the Black Lives movement. It’s racial justice. People are paying attention.”
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Sen. Julie Kushner, a former union executive now co-chair of the legislature’s labor committee, talks to Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff before taking up another of her bills.
The advance of an ambitious labor agenda in the General Assembly is delighting social-justice warriors energized by the tumult of the times but it is rattling conservatives and some moderates fearful of Connecticut emerging from a recession branded as hostile to business.
A confluence of factors is driving the labor bills, beginning with Democrats reversing losses that had left them with a paralyzing tie in the Senate in 2017 and 2018, followed by the reckoning brought by COVID-19 and the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Connecticut would become the second state after Oregon to guarantee employees of national retailers, fast-food franchises and restaurant and hotel chains stable shift schedules under legislation passed Tuesday night by the state Senate.
Passage came shortly before midnight on a 20-16 vote after a five-year lobbying campaign by the Working Families Party and other progressives, a battle that seemed to turn during a pandemic that raised the profile of low-wage workers who performed essential jobs.