In what the complainant hails as a win for public employees, the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations ruled that the Hartford Federation of Teachers discriminated against a teacher because he was not a union member.

Hartford elementary school physical education teacher John Grande, the complainant, attended a mandatory "racial and gender 'privilege' training" in 2020, and "expressed disagreement" after he was asked for his opinion, according to a press release from The Fairness Center, a nonprofit public-interest law firm in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.