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Hispanic Heritage Month Profiles: Maribel Rodriguez

05 Oct, 2022

Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, the AFL-CIO will be profiling leaders and activists to spotlight the diverse contributions Hispanics and Latinos have made to the labor movement. Today's profile features Maribel Rodriguez.

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.

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.

In late April, twelve workers at FuelCell Energy who were tired of wage disparities and not having a voice on the job, voted to form a union and joined the Operating Engineers. Over the next two weeks, however, two workers who had no prior disciplinary issues were illegally fired and another was pressured to resign.

08, Jun, 2022

Pride Month Profiles: Stacey Zimmerman

For more than a quarter-century, Stacey Zimmerman has fought to make her state a better and more progressive place as a student activist, community organizer and (good) union troublemaker.

08, Jun, 2022

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