by Marc E. Fitch | Nov 14, 2018 | Fitch Files, Transportation, Yankee News |
It’s 5 A.M. when I find my way to an empty parking garage in New Britain across the street from CTFastrack’s bus terminal, which is lit up like the Las Vegas strip in the morning darkness. It’s early – earlier than most people have to go to work and, aside from the...
by Marc E. Fitch | Oct 22, 2018 | Fitch Files, Yankee News |
Imagine a workplace in which you feel it necessary to video-record yourself making a trip to the bathroom in case you are confronted by colleagues; where employees allegedly hire private investigators to follow each other around; where petty personal disputes become...
by Marc E. Fitch | Jul 16, 2018 | Fitch Files, Labor, Yankee News |
Cheryl Spano Lonis has been a nurse in Connecticut's prison system for 19 years and a member of the New England Health Care Employees Union 1199. But when she tried to opt out of union membership in 2015 based on her religious beliefs and donate her union fees to...
by Marc E. Fitch | May 10, 2018 | Fitch Files, Yankee News |
The resignation of Department of Revenue Services Commissioner Kevin Sullivan has left Marilee Corr Clark, DRS’s Tax Legal Director, “terrified.” Her concern is that as Sullivan steps down and Deputy Commissioner Joseph Mooney temporarily takes over as commissioner...
by Marc E. Fitch | Mar 28, 2018 | Fitch Files, Good Government, Labor, Yankee News |
Connecticut’s Whiting Forensic Hospital was forced to rehire employees terminated in 2009 and 2010 for the abuse of state psychiatric patients after grievance arbitrators overturned management decisions, according to documents obtained through a freedom of information...
by Marc E. Fitch | Feb 9, 2018 | Fitch Files, Labor, Yankee News |
J-Con Woodworking, based out of Thomaston, Connecticut, opened in 1983 and quickly became a premier manufacturer of cabinets in Connecticut. Marquis (Mark) Converse and his wife Hilary ran the small shop, which employed more than a dozen people, including 8 carpenters...