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Middletown schools to tap union workers mistakenly omitted from reentry survey FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 A second-grade student works behind a protection shield at a socially distanced desk at Wesley Elementary School in Middletown.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Middletown Public Schools Chief of Talent and Performance Management Geen ThazhampallathContributed photoShow MoreShow Less 3of3 MIDDLETOWN — Feedback from public service union workers in the school district now will be included in ongoing planning for students to return to school in person during the pandemic. AFSCME L...

After union push, Hennepin County gives employees child care leave during pandemic Until the county's declared emergency ends, employees can now take 160 hours of two-thirds paid leave. The county also created opportunities for negative leave to be forgiven. Author: Feb 9, 2021 Provided by Ali Furhman After a monthslong union campaign, Hennepin County has created a child care leave policy to replace the one provided by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which expired at the end of 2020.  The Hennepin County Board voted unanimously last week to establish 160 hours of two-thirds paid...

State to close 'supermax' prison, Northern Correctional Institution Kelan Lyons, CTMirror.org FacebookTwitterEmail A sign at the Northern Correctional Institution in Somers.File photo. Northern Correctional Institution, the state’s controversial “supermax” prison located in Somers, will close by July 1, the Department of Correction announced to its staff on Monday. The closure is the first since Enfield Correctional Institution was shuttered on Jan. 23, 2018. There are 5,000 fewer people in state correctional facilities since then. The most precipitous decline has been since the onset ...

Multnomah County battles workplace outbreaks, complaints Employees complain of notification failures and shortcuts. Management says they're doing their best. At the headquarters of the Multnomah County Department of Health, nine workers at the county's HIV clinic tested positive for COVID-19, forcing numerous others to quarantine and the clinic to shutter its doors for a four-day stretch in mid-December. At the county's Donald E. Long Detention Center for juveniles, nine workers and three youth tested positive since the end of November, and jails operated by the Multnomah County Sher...

Multnomah County battles workplace outbreaks, complaints Employees complain of notification failures and shortcuts. Management says they're doing their best. At the headquarters of the Multnomah County Department of Health, nine workers at the county's HIV clinic tested positive for COVID-19, forcing numerous others to quarantine and the clinic to shutter its doors for a four-day stretch in mid-December. At the county's Donald E. Long Detention Center for juveniles, nine workers and three youth tested positive since the end of November, and jails operated by the Multnomah County Sher...