Labor 2010 Political Program has begun!  With a leadership meeting and the first coordinators meeting already underway, the Connecticut AFL-CIO political program has begun.  Read more>>>

The Connecticut AFL-CIO urges its members to join the Greater New Haven Labor History Association.  Its mission is to collect, preserve and share the history of working people in the greater New Haven area and throughout the state of Connecticut. Its goal is to work with you to document your history and make it known. Read more>>>

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka laid out a 21st century U.S. economic policy at today’s lunchtime keynote session at Netroots Nation before a diverse crowd of more than 1,000 progressive political activists. Restoring the nation’s middle class in part means returning to a “real economy”—one in which we make things, rather than move around complex financial products, Trumka said. Strengthening U.S. manufacturing must be part of the process to reverse five decades of stagnating wages. Read More>>

President Obama this evening signed the unemployment insurance extension bill. The legislation will get jobless benefits flowing once again to more than 2.5 million long-term jobless workers who were cut off after Republican Senate filibusters derailed the program. Read More>>

Inside the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., today, Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship tried to defend the indefensible—Massey’s coal mine safety record. Thirty-one miners have died in Massey mines this year, including 29 in the April 5 explosion at the Upper Big Branch (W.Va.) mine. Fifty-four coal miners have been killed in the past decade at Massey mines. Read More>>

Connecticut AFL-CIO's Health and Safety Committee dedicated a permanent Worker Memorial in a prominent location in Bushnell Park. FOR NEW PICTURES OF THE MEMORIAL GO TO PHOTO ALBUMS. 

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Senator Chris Dodd is a champion for working families in Connecticut and in the United States. Senator Dodd will retire from the Senate with a legacy of having been a tireless advocate for workers’ rights and a voice for the powerless. In his 30 years in the Senate and 6 years as U.S. Representative from the 2nd Congressional District, Senator Dodd has consistently voted in favor of issues helping working families.