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center training program; 



Massachusetts: to continue the 

 Landscape Pest Message System 

 (an 800 number for Green Indus- 

 try professionals to access weekly 

 pest and disease information); 



New Hampshire: to develop a 

 Growing Degree Days monitoring 

 system, produce a garden center 

 evaluation handbook, and support 

 research looking at mycorrhizae 

 applications; 



Rhode Island: to increase grower 

 knowledge of proven methods to 

 control deer injury to nursery and 

 landscape stock; 



Vermont: to help establish a study 

 of rust diseases of perennial asters, 

 expand coverage of perennials on 

 Dr. Leonard Perry's Web site, and 

 support trials of new overwintering 



covers for container perennials. 



New England Grows will be held 

 on January 28-30, 1999. For infor- 

 mation, contact Virginia Wood at 

 508-653-3009. 



Election Year Results 



A Connecticut Legislative Alert 

 from the Connecticut Greenhouse 

 Growers' Association read in part: 

 "The Labor Committee of the 

 Connecticut General Assembly 

 has approved and sent to the 

 House and senate floors a bill 

 that would raise the state mini- 

 mum wage from the current $5.18 

 per hour to $6.30 .... jumping 

 the wage up a full $1.12 in one 

 swoop will have a devastating ef- 

 fect on hiring entry level workers 

 and will suddenly put pressure 



on employers to raise other em- 

 ployee wages — whether justified or 

 not. 



"The Labor Committee has also 

 approved and sent to the House 

 and Senate floors a bill that 

 would mandate overtime pay 

 (time-and-a-half) for all workers 

 on Sundays and holidays in com- 

 panies that have retail facilities of 

 3,5000 square feet or more. Cur- 

 rently, you pay overtime only on 

 hours worked beyond 40 in a 

 work week — and the employer 

 has always been the one to deter- 

 mine what the work week is. This 

 bill suddenly changes the rules." 



As of May first, the minimum 

 wage was increased by one dol- 

 lar — Connecticut's minimum wage 

 is now $1.03 above federal stan- 

 dards; the bill mandating Sunday 

 overtime pay is still pending. 



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