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UALE Summer Webinars: Training & Tools for Union Members

16 Jul, 2025

The United Association for Labor Education is hosting a Summer 2025 Webinar Series and you and your members are invited to attend! All trainings will be held on Zoom.

Worker Bee: Special Edition – The Buzz of Solidarity

11 Jun, 2025

Special Edition

SOLIDARITY ALERT: IAM on Strike at Pratt & Whitney

04 May, 2025

Members of the Machinists Union have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike at Pratt & Whitney!

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Hospitals have tried to coerce employee speech. We can stop it.

Glen Maloney helped workers at Rockville General Hospital form their union, concerned that many of his co-workers lacked any mechanism to improve their working conditions, pay and benefits.

28, Mar, 2022

Dollar General Workers Expose Company's Illegal Union-Busting

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

21, Mar, 2022

Worker describes how captive audience meetings erode human dignity

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.

21, Mar, 2022

Organizing Director Breaks Down Captive Audience Meetings

Jessica Petronella, Organizing Director for UFCW Local 371, breaks down the types of anti-union tactics management will engage in to scare workers.

14, Mar, 2022

Workers Memorial Day Scholarship Essay Contest

This year, the Connecticut AFL-CIO Health and Safety Committee is again offering a scholarship essay contest to inspire high school seniors to think about the importance of workplace health and safety.

11, Mar, 2022

Organizing workers describe their experiences with captive audience meetings

When workers seek to form a union, many employers will force them to attend captive audience meetings where they often make threats and harass workers to vote no.

08, Mar, 2022