When the City of Waterbury approached UPSEU last spring about what do with a surplus of Elementary & Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) and American Rescue Plan (ARP) Funds, the Union was quick to suggest in a detailed letter to city officials that such monies should be utilized to compensate UPSEU employees who worked through the early/darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New York now requires that insurance companies provide motorists with supplemental spousal liability insurance coverage equal to bodily injury liability coverage, unless the insured specifically rejects such coverage in writing. In Short, your spouse now has supplemental spousal liability coverage under your policy.

Between March and April 2022, after long negotiations filled with frustrating delays, two separate Brookfield Board of Education bargaining units, the Brookfield BOE Nurses and Brookfield BOE Secretaries/Technical Employees, successfully concluded negotiations in mediation.

From the onset of the Paraeducators of Stamford Association (POSA) contract negotiations, which began in April 2022, UPSEU made clear that during the course of these negotiations with respect to the financial components of a new contract on behalf of our membership, a transformative agreement would be secured.

In June 2022, the Southington BOE Paraeducators/ABA’s/EL Tutors bargaining unit, which consists of approximately 300 members, voted by an overwhelming majority to approve the Tentative Agreement for a successor contract.

On May 18, 2021, as a result of a secret ballot election conducted by the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations (CSBLR), the Brookfield Paraeducators unanimously voted to leave CSEA/SEIU and join UPSEU.

Following tornadic activity in the summer of 2020, the Town of Hamden chose to outsource various clean-up projects in the following weeks at its schools and golf course to a private contractor, despite the availability of bargaining unit personnel in the Public Works Department who could have performed the work quickly, efficiently, and at a lower cost.

The labor movement continues to be alive and strong in Connecticut and perhaps there is no better example of this than UPSEU’s recent organization of twenty-two Parent Facilitators, employed by the Stamford Board of Education.

Proving that word of mouth and the importance of reputable work are invaluable, UPSEU has brought two new bargaining units on board in Massachusetts. Thanks to the relentless and dedicated service to members provided by Labor Relations Representative Roger Stolen, UPSEU continues to expand its presence in Massachusetts at an impressive rate.

UPSEU Local 424, Unit 36 – Hamden Parks & Recreation Employees, proudly participating in the Town of Hamden 2022 Memorial Day Parade. Bargaining unit member Ely Maldonado is driving the truck with member Jimmy Wilson, Jr. and Unit Vice-President Tom Brown standing on the back; Unit President Jimmy Wilson, Sr. is driving the Zamboni.