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The Fitch Files: Union Ignored Religious Objector Who Wanted Her Fees Donated to Charity

The Fitch Files: Union Ignored Religious Objector Who Wanted Her Fees Donated to Charity

by Marc E. Fitch | Jul 16, 2018 | Fitch Files, Labor, Yankee News | 0 comments

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...
The Fitch Files: “Devastating” accusations of sexual favoritism and hostile work environment at Dept. of Revenue Services

The Fitch Files: “Devastating” accusations of sexual favoritism and hostile work environment at Dept. of Revenue Services

by Marc E. Fitch | May 10, 2018 | Fitch Files, Yankee News | 22 comments

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...
The Fitch Files: Whiting Hospital Was Forced to Rehire Employees Terminated for Abuse

The Fitch Files: Whiting Hospital Was Forced to Rehire Employees Terminated for Abuse

by Marc E. Fitch | Mar 28, 2018 | Fitch Files, Good Government, Labor, Yankee News | 0 comments

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...
The Fitch Files: Connecticut woodworking company becomes victim of national pension crisis, gets sued out of existence

The Fitch Files: Connecticut woodworking company becomes victim of national pension crisis, gets sued out of existence

by Marc E. Fitch | Feb 9, 2018 | Fitch Files, Labor, Yankee News | 0 comments

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...

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