Dive Summary:

• Connecticut Light and Power has failed to reach an agreement with union workers after their contract after their contract expired on June 1.
• The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers announced that they plan to picket over overtime issues and a 30% staffing increase that the union has requested.
• Regulators are expected to announced a decision Wednesday regarding CL&P's desire to collect money from ratepayers to pay for $290 million in storm repair costs from last year.

From the article:

Negotiations for a new contract between Connecticut Light & Power and its workers have deadlocked in a dispute over staffing that the union blames on heightened efforts by the utility to never again be caught short in a major storm.

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers is organizing informational picket lines Tuesday to protest what it says is pressure to work overtime each time a storm looms. ...