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.”
DAYTONA BEACH If Jim Chisholm s missile launcher pitching arm and talent for darting into an end zone with a football had taken him farther than high school championships and a college scholarship, he might have never found his way to Daytona Beach.
And if he hadn t grown bored working for financial companies in his late 20s, he might have never become a city manager who applied in 2004 to become Daytona Beach s next city manager.
If Chisholm had never sat behind the desk in the big City Hall corner office overlooking Ridgewood Avenue, the Daytona Beach Pier might have stayed under private ownership and deteriorated into an even more dangerous and crumbling eyesore than it was when the city purchased it.
Saturday afternoon Bartolotta hosted a job fair Community Center. The hospitality group, currently employs a little over 400 workers and they're looking to hire more.
MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG
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.
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