Category: Employment
DPUC To Investigate Connecticut Water Co.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that the Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) — less than a week after his request — has agreed to investigate the Connecticut Water Company’s (CWC) possible plans to reduce its workforce mere weeks after it was permitted to raise rates to fund higher staffing levels. “I commend the DPUC [...]
Blumenthal Asks Pratt To Avoid Layoff Of 129 At Cheshire Plant
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today called on Pratt & Whitney to avoid the projected layoff of 129 workers at its Cheshire plant by reducing overtime, instituting furloughs or taking other steps short of letting go workers. Pratt & Whitney currently has many Cheshire plant employees working overtime and on weekends. In a letter to Pratt [...]
Ct Atty Gen Asks For Broad Investigation Into Positive Energy Electric
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is asking state regulators to investigate Positive Energy, an independent electricity seller, for “allegedly falsifying its state license application and delaying and diverting contracts, potentially costing customers hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in lost discounts.” Positive Energy Electricity Supply, LLC of Middlebury is an electricity aggregator — a company [...]
Congress To Lift Penalty On Unemployed Who Take Temporary Jobs
In an excellent story in today’s Courant, staff reporter Mara Lee explores the disincentive that the unemployed have to find work as they are penalized for taking temporary jobs that pay less than the jobs they lost inititially. The story also explains how legislation pending in Congress will fix the problem along with stories from [...]
Blumenthal Opposes Lobster Fishing Moratorium
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today urged the American Lobster Management Board to reject a broad moratorium on lobster fishing that could potentially devastate commercial lobster fishermen, wholesalers and retailers in Connecticut. The board will meet Thursday to consider a five-year moratorium on all lobster fishing south of Cape Cod, including Long Island Sound, after a [...]
Blumenthal Oil Drill Moratorium Real Issue, Not The Attorney General’s Investments
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is getting flak for his and his family’s investment in oil companies, as it is seen as a contradiction to his political stances. I think that is straw man. Blumenthal and his wife have a net worth of tens of millions of dollars. His vote on issues is not going [...]
Pratt & Whitney Got The Blumenthal Treatment On Its Cancer Study
New Haven Independent Columnist Carole Bass writes that major media in Connecticut failed to look closely at the cancer study that Pratt & Whitney, a UTC division, funded. She wrote: “No cancer link found at P&W,” blared the front page of Friday’s New Haven Register. “Study: Pratt & Whitney Workers Got Brain Cancer At Same [...]
Tips For Teens To Find Summer Jobs
In case you want your teen to be doing something productive this summer, your might want to read this article on solid tips from CBS News MoneyWatch.com. The teen unemployment rate is 250 percent higher than for adults, which is about 10 percent.
Gov. Rell Visits Middletown’s Pegasus Manufacturing
Governor Rell and legislative leaders were at the Pegasus Manufacturing plant in Middletow to sign a comprehensive jobs bill designed to spark small business growth and to give hope to the unemployed. The video incorrectly states that there are only a few manufacturing firms left in Connecticut. Manufacturing remains an important and crucial part of [...]
Teacher Jobs Could Be Saved By Eliminating Public Notice Mandate
The lede story in today’s Courant is about the expected layoffs of 2,000 teachers in Connecticut because of the economy. I wonder how many of those critical jobs could be saved if the General Assembly had the backbone to stand up to The Courant – the main driver of the Ct Daily Newspaper Association’s misleading [...]
Advertisements
