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Empowering Paras to Raise Standards

Susan Nelson Testifies at Capitol

Susan Nelson Testified on the Need for Paras to Access Family and Medical Leave

March 10, 2010

Our efforts moved a legislative committee to pass a bill extending family and medical leave protections to school paras, and we are mobilizing for the next steps.

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Good Works Committee

Members and Banner at 09 St Pats Parade

Our Union Members Joined the Fun for the 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade

Due to a last-minute conflict over new rules governing the event, our Union will NOT have a contingent in Hartford's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday, March 13.

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Preserving Local Public Services

Ed Demers at Middlebury PD Radios Vote

Ed Demers Answers Voters' Questions About Public Safety in Middlebury

Municipal Division members have taken the effort to protect residents' safety and security in this recession to a town's voters.

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CSEA News, February 2010

CSEA News February 2010 Cover Image

CSEA News, February 2010

The CSEA News is a monthly publication covering a variety of working families' issues. The current edition is now available online in a downloadable format.

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"Clean Contracting" for Connecticut

Cathy Osten Debates YI on CT Newsmakers

Cathy Osten Debated the Yankee Institute's Pro-Privatization Push in 2008

Our Union members are calling-out the Yankee Institute for shamefully targeting seniors in its latest publicity stunt to justify privatizing public services.

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Standing Up for a Voice on the Job

Ed Gould Interviewed at Supreme Court

Ed Gould Address the Impact of the Governor's Legal Battle with the Hartford Courant

As the State Supreme Court heard arguments in Governor Rell's legal appeals, candidates who seek to replace her supported a union for State Police commissioned officers.

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Promoting Our McCusker Scholarships

Cathy Osten Speaks at 09 Awards Night

Scholarship Winners and their Families at Our Union Hall for 2009 Awards Night

Sell Lyman Orchards butter braid pastries to friends and family for the spring holidays and help increase the number of members' children and grandchildren receiving scholarships in 2010.

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Latest Member Authored Op-Eds

  • ADULT DAY-CARE CUTS ARE SHORTSIGHTED
    2/20/2010
    Published "Letter to the Editor" of the Hartford Courant by Council 400 member Bette Marafino reacting to Governor Rell's mean-spirited cuts to Alzheimer's and adult day care services in her latest budget deficit mitigation proposal.
  • HAVEN'T WE ALREADY BEEN BURNED BY THE PRIVATIZATION MYTH?
    2/19/2010
    Op-Ed by Council 400 member Stu Mahler posted at the political weblog of record CT News Junkie denouncing a recent Yankee Institute analyst's commentary that promoted reckless outsourcing of public projects as a "solution" to the budget deficit.
  • SUNLIGHT PROJECT DOESN'T SHED LIGHT ON INSTITUTE'S MISSION
    2/19/2010
    Op-Ed by Local Union President Cathy Osten published in the Norwich Bulletin in response to an article on the Yankee Institute's disingenuous project that exposes information on retired public service workers but ignores waste in contracting-out.

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