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Job Posting: Communications Director

22 Oct, 2026

The Connecticut AFL-CIO is seeking an experienced, strategic, and creative Communications Director to lead the state federation’s internal and external communications programs.

Cannabis Dispensary Workers in Connecticut Ratify Four-Year Contract

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Boycott Starbucks!

02 Sep, 2026

For nearly five years, Starbucks baristas have been fighting for what every worker deserves: better pay, enough hours to make ends meet, safe staffing, and a fair union contract. More than 12,000 baristas have organized with Starbucks Workers United, winning more than 700 union elections nationwide.

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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

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