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The CT Paid Leave Podcast

30 Jun, 2022

Paid Leave is a hot topic in our country right now. The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world without a national paid leave policy, and Connecticut is one of only 9 states and the District of Columbia to have a state program in place.

Labor Endorses Slate of Pro-Worker Candidates

24 Jun, 2022 Read More >

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West Hartford Workers Win First Starbucks Union In Connecticut

09 Jun, 2022

Today, the NLRB counted the ballots for Corbin’s Corner Starbucks in West Hartford, CT. In a vote of 13-3 the partners (employees) won the union vote, becoming the first Starbucks store to win their union in the state.

Workers joined a union. CEO illegally fired them.

08 Jun, 2022 Read More >

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Workers Shouldn’t Be Cornered and Threatened at Work.

Imagine working as a housekeeper for a national hotel chain. You and your colleagues, anxious for better wages and a more reasonable workload, have begun the process of forming a union.

29, Apr, 2022

How to Help Working People on Workers Memorial Day

Every year on April 28, the labor movement observes Workers Memorial Day to remember workers killed or injured on the job and to renew the fight for strong safety and health protections.

28, Apr, 2022

Nurse Was Forced Into Supply Closet for Captive Audience Meeting

John Brady is a Registered Nurse and worked at Backus Hospital (Hartford HealthCare) in Norwich when he and his co-workers decided they needed to form a union.

25, Apr, 2022

No One Should Be Intimidated or Afraid at Work. SB 163 Will Help Restore Respect.

When Kirt and his co-workers tried to form a union, his employer hired a union-busting firm to "educate" employees with mandatory captive audience meetings.

22, Apr, 2022

AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler on the future of America's labor movement

Liz Shuler is the first woman ever elected president of the AFL-CIO.

She took over a time when the world of work has been turned upside down.

Union organizing is happening in some unexpected places, and sometimes in ways that disrupt the traditional union playbook.

19, Apr, 2022

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