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Telework Agreement

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The State House Vote Results On Your 2024 Raises

State House Vote On Our Wage Re-Opener

This is the House vote on our 2024 Wage Re-Opener...if you see your State Rep's name in red, it means they voted against your raise, remember that you get to vote for or against them in November. If your State Rep is in green then they supported your wage increase, remember them in November too

State Senate Vote On 2024 Wage Re-Opener

State Senate Vote On Our Wage Re-Opener

This is the State Senate vote on our 2024 Wage Re-Opener...if you see your State Senator's name in red, it means they voted against your raise, remember that you get to vote for or against them in November. If your State Senator is in green then they supported your wage increase, remember them in November too

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2024/25 Wage Re-Opener Passes

-4/23/24

Our Wage Re-opener Agreement is now final! Today (April 23, 2024) our Wage Re-Opener Agreement passed a full floor vote in the Senate as well as a full floor vote in the House…that means it has been adopted! The House voted in favor 106 Yea to 44 Nay. The Senate voted in favor 24 Yea to 12 Nay. There is no need for a Governor’s signature, it is final!

As a reminder, the agreement calls for a 2.5% raise on June 28th (meaning you will see it in your July 25th paycheck) and there will be a Step Increase/Top Step Payment effective December 27th (meaning you will see that in your

Looking For Something To Do On Mother's Day?

If you are looking for that Mother's Day Gift...we have a great solution, take her to see Wicked at the Bushnell on Mother's Day (May 12, 2024). We just added the play Wicked! at the Bushnell to our line-up of activities! Tickets are $117/each and we only have a few tickets available so don't wait! The Emerald City Cocktail Lounge will be open to all two-hours prior to the show if you wish to get the full experience! View the flyer here or get your tickets here!

The A&R Social Committee has also put together an extensive list of trips and activities for the Summer and Fall of 2024 so

Longevity and Scholarship Winners

-4/16/23

Longevity - Reminder that the final paycheck in April and the final paycheck in October are when "Longevity" payments are made for those who qualify (must have over 10 years of service and hired prior to July 1, 2011); this means that Longevity payments are due in this week's paycheck.

A&R Scholarship Winners for 2024

A&R would like to congratulate the winners of our annual Scholarship Awards and thank our Scholarship Cmte members for their time and efforts in making this happen every year.

$2,500 Harry Zilber Scholarship Award winner:

Sara St. Germain daughter of JoAnn

Wage Re-Opener Progress

Our Wage Re-Opener Agreement has passed the Appropriations Cmte House and Senate votes...next and final stop is a full vote on the House floor (HR-15) and a full vote on the Senate floor (SR-12). There is no scheduled date for the full floor votes just yet, we will let you know...but remember, everyone has a role in getting this passed, you need to contact your State Rep and State Senator and let them know you want them to pass HR-15 or SR-12 (you can find your legislator's contact info here).

Below are the tally sheets for the votes in the Appropriations Committee...all Senate Democrats

Wage Re-Opener Update

UPDATE 4/12/24 - Our Wage Re-Opener [which is identified as Senate Resolution 12 (SR-12) and House Resolution 15 (HR-15)] will be taken up by the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee today, Friday April 12, 2024. A public hearing will be held starting at 10:00AM-ish and can be viewed on CT-N.com . The public hearing will be followed by a meeting of the Appropriations Cmte where we expect that both chambers will take a committee vote later today. A&R Chief Negotiator Rhonda Tillman submitted written testimony on behalf of A&R in favor of the Wage Re-Opener. If the House & Senate

A&R Wage Re-opener Voting Results

Voting on the 2024 Wage Re-opener Tentative Agreement has closed and the membership has overwhelmingly voted to ratify and accept the Tentative Agreement.

Thank you to all of the members of the A&R Negotiations Committee for your help in delivering this Tentative Agreement to the membership. Thank you to the A&R stewards who rallied the members and got the message out. Most importantly, thank you to all of the A&R members who participated in this contract vote. The union draws its strength directly from the membership so we thank all members who participated in the process.

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