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Scholarship Opportunity for Union Families: Apply by April 1

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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: New Haven Teachers Secure 13.5% Pay Increase

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IAM Local 1746 Community Service Committee & Women's Committee

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IAM Local 1746 Members Continue 30-Year Tradition of Giving Back

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In Memoriam: Eileen Marie Warren

We are saddened to inform you that Eileen Warren passed away on Sunday, January 22. Eileen dedicated her career to the Connecticut AFL-CIO, always working hard to ensure that the office and all of our conventions and meetings ran as smoothly as possible. She will be remembered fondly.

25, Jan, 2017

Know Your Voting Rights

Important elections are coming this fall. In addition to electing the next president of the United States, we will be voting for members of Congress, and state and local leaders.

15, Sep, 2016

What It Means To Be an American

One night at his UPS job, Tefere Gebre's co-worker handed him some union material.

“He told me that I’d get health care and vacation and other benefits by filling it out. I said, ‘Are you serious?’ I thought, ‘Hmm. Everyone should have that.’”

02, Sep, 2016

Today’s Photo ID Laws Are Yesterday’s Beans in a Jar

Growing up in rural Kentucky, Augusta Thomas witnessed the extreme measures elected officials would take to prevent African-American men from voting.

24, Aug, 2016

On the 51st Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, Now Is the Time to Restore It to Its Full Power

Anniversaries can be celebratory or somber. Today we celebrate the 51st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and it is the kind of anniversary in which we hail the success of the act, while also acknowledging the deficiencies in our democracy that make the full act necessary.

23, Aug, 2016