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Jasmine Vendredi is a union organizer with AFT Connecticut. She’s helped countless workers exercise their rights and improve their working conditions by forming a union. But it’s not an easy experience. In fact, in can be traumatic for many.

This year, for Women's History Month, the AFL-CIO is taking a look at a group of leaders who are currently making women's history across the labor movement.

In case you missed it, CT AFL-CIO President Ed Hawthorne was a guest on Fox's The Real Story to talk about legislation that will protect workers from employer intimidation and harassment during union organizing campaigns.

Last Fall in Barkhamsted, six Dollar General employees tried to form a union after corporate management wrongly accused their store manager of stealing.

When we hear about employers trying to silence the voices of workers, we like to think those kinds of things don’t happen in Connecticut. But they do.