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RadioActive: Talking CT’s State Budget


Matt O’Connor of CSEA/SEIU 2001 discusses the ongoing CT budget debate and its potential effects on public employees and the state overall.

 

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RadioActive: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, 100 Years Later


We discuss the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on its one hundredth anniversary, and its implications for the labor movement then and now.  We’re joined in the studio by Steve Thornton of SEIU 1199.

 

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Photo shows bodies from the fire. Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/familytreemagazine/5553242173/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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100th Anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Fire


(Hartford) On Friday March 25th, a ceremony honoring the 146 workers who needlessly perished in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in NYC will take place  at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, First Floor Atrium. at 4:30 p.m..There will be speakers and a performance by the Colchester Community Theatre.

For more info on the tragedy, check out: http://homefront.homestead.com/Triangle.html

photo courtesy of Steve Thornton

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RadioActive: Solidarity Rally at the Capitol


Hundreds of union members and supporters gathered at the state Capitol in Hartford in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin, and to support rights of collective bargaining here in CT.

 

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MoveOn.org Labor Solidarity Rally


(Hartford) Following the successful solidarity rally held 3 days earlier by local unions and allies,  MoveOn.org organized another show of support for Wisconsin workers facing threats to their right to bargain collectively.

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RadioActive: May Day Hartford


SEIU 1199′s Steve Thornton discusses the events surrounding Hartford’s first annual May Day celebration, coming Saturday May 1 to Burr Mall, Main Street next to city hall in Downtown Hartford – music, food, workshops and a walking tour of labor history in Hartford.

 

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  • kevin: so with that kind of political support, any hope of ending this thing equitably any time soon?
  • steve thornton: (January 15) Former Hartford Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry told Spectrum workers and their supporters that...

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