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We launched this current events section to provide frequent and timely news on issues impacting Connecticut's working families, as well as to share details on upcoming events and activities of interest to our Union members.

"General Communications" Posts

Public and Private Sector Union Members Must Hang Together
For the first time in American history, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in January that there are more public sector union members than in the private sector. This news should energize our members to help make it easier for private sector workers to unionize because public sector union families are even more at risk when there are fewer private sector workers who enjoy similar compensation and benefits.

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Posted By: David McCluskey on 5/27/2010 11:04:00 AM

comments (0) Collective Bargaining Issues ,  Freedom to Form Unions ,  General Communications ,  Long Term Care Relief

Boosting Support this "McCusker Month" for Our Scholarship Benefit
Our Union's McCusker Scholarship Trustees are stepping-up efforts to set a new record for the number of members' children and grandchildren to receive educational grants in 2010. In addition to appealing to our Union's Councils, Chapters, and individual members to contribute during our annual "McCusker Month" drive, they have teamed-up once again with Lyman Orchards to organize a pastry fundraiser through March 12.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 2/12/2010 5:51:00 PM

comments (0) General Communications ,  Member Incentives

New Date Set for Middletown SEIU Legislative Accountability Forum
Monday's Legislative Accountability Forum in Middletown that was postponed by the snowstorm has been rescheduled for Thursday, March 19 at 5:45 PM at the originally planned location. A revised flyer with the new date has been linked to the "Connecting Members to Lawmakers" section of the website which you can download, print, and distribute in worksites and at Chapter meetings over the next two weeks.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 3/5/2009 4:08:00 PM

comments (0) General Communications ,  Political Action

Join the St. Patrick's Day Fun with Union Members
Our Union's Legislative Action Committee (LAC) is coordinating our participation in this year's Hartford St. Patrick's Day Parade on Saturday, March 14. We are joining with the SEIU State Council and the coalition of unions in the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) in this fun, festive way to show our pride as public service workers to the community.

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Posted By: Catherine Osten on 3/4/2009 7:07:00 PM

comments (0) General Communications ,  In Our Communities

Debating Employee Free Choice with the CBIA
As the 2008 presidential election has heated up, news reports of nationwide efforts to pass the most sweeping labor law reforms in a generation are gaining attention. WTIC-AM radio invited our union to represent the pro-worker side of the debate over the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, and Local union President Mike O'Brien delivered our message live today on the "Mornings with Ray & Diane" show.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 10/20/2008 5:17:00 PM

comments (0) Freedom to Form Unions ,  General Communications ,  Political Action

Seeking Solutions for the State Budget Deficit
Monday's news reporting a larger deficit for the current year's state budget than the Rell Administration projected last week was not a huge surprise, given the nosedive the nation's economy has taken. What was surprising was the Governor's warning that "everything will be on the table" to an Associated Press reporter who asked if she is considering deeper cuts to services, laying-off state workers, or reducing aid to cities and towns. NBC-TV Channel 30 reached out to our members for a response, and aired comments in last night's 6:00 news broadcast by our union's President Mike O'Brien and Secretary-Treasurer Patrice Peterson.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 9/24/2008 5:36:00 PM

comments (0) CSC Communications ,  CSPCOA Communications ,  General Communications ,  Leading for Quality Services ,  P3-A Communications ,  P3-B Communications ,  P-4 Communications ,  PIC Communications ,  SJM Communications

Taking Back Labor Day from the Special Interests
Our union's President Mike O'Brien has an Op-Ed on the Employee Free Choice Act, connecting it to the November General Election and increasing attacks by opponents of workers' rights, published in today's Hartford Business Journal. He responded to an editorial published in last week's edition opposing the legislation, which when passed will help more workers achieve the American Dream by giving them the freedom to choose a union.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 9/1/2008 9:52:00 AM

comments (1) Freedom to Form Unions ,  General Communications ,  Political Action

We Won't be the Special Interests' Scapegoats
Yesterday's Willimantic Chronicle printed our response to an Op-Ed the paper published last month by a policy analyst from Connecticut's increasingly visible anti-union network. Paraprofessional Council leader Sharon Hagans' "Community Voices" editorial is the latest in our ongoing efforts to expose the real agenda of supply-side extremists who are manipulating economic fears to achieve the political goals of the special interests who back them.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 8/9/2008 11:22:00 AM

comments (0) Freedom to Form Unions ,  Leading for Quality Services ,  Our Rights at Work ,  Political Action ,  General Communications

Responding to Reckless, Radical Rhetoric
The Yankee Institute (YI), a corporate-funded anti-worker think tank, has been on a 6-week press junket hawking its latest "study," The Coming Showdown with Public Labor. When the report's author, YI Executive Director Lewis Andrews, wrote an Op-Ed published in the Journal Inquirer regurgitating its special interest-driven political agenda, we responded. Read CSC Council Vice-President Mark Lucey's reply, published yesterday as a Letter to the Editor of the JI (scroll down for the fourth letter on the page).

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 7/19/2008 11:28:00 AM

comments (0) Clean Contracting ,  Freedom to Form Unions ,  General Communications ,  Leading for Quality Services

Mobilizing Members for "Employee Free Choice"
SEIU is mobilizing members across the country around an issue important to all American workers -- the right to form a union. We are reaching out to our Local union's members to join the effort to collect a million signatures for a petition to pass the "Employee Free Choice Act" to send national elected leaders.

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Posted By: Matt OConnor on 7/17/2008 4:37:00 PM

comments (0) Freedom to Form Unions ,  General Communications ,  Political Action