April 29, 2019 EditionEdition

While health and retirement benefits were the top reasons more than 30,000 Stop & Shop workers across Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island went on an 11-day strike this month, another concern lingered in the background for picketing employees.

Connecticut's construction industry, still recovering from the Great Recession, is preparing for another uneasy period while state budget debates and spending plans from both parties promise sharp decreases in public spending.

The freight industry is taking off at Bradley International Airport. Package-delivery and other supply-chain companies operating out of Bradley handled 281 million pounds of freight and mail shipped in and out of the airport last year, a 16.4-percent increase vs. 2017, according to Kevin Dillon, executive director of the Connecticut Airport Authority, which oversees Bradley.