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The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus

Racial disparities in who contracts the virus have played out in big cities like Milwaukee and New York, but also in smaller metropolitan areas like Grand Rapids, Mich., where the Bradleys live. Those inequities became painfully apparent when Ms.

06, Jul, 2020

Trumka: The AFL-CIO Must Fight for Trans Lives Inside and Outside the Labor Movement

This month’s historic Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ employees are protected in the workplace by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was another step forward in the march for equality.

30, Jun, 2020

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CT Valley Views Interviews Sal Luciano

Last week, CT Valley Views interviewed Connecticut AFL-CIO President Sal Luciano about the COVID-19 pandemic, the lack of PPE, establishing a presumption for essential workers, and more.

30, Jun, 2020

What Is Owed: Without Economic Justice, There Can Be No True Equality

Race-neutral policies simply will not address the depth of disadvantage faced by people this country once believed were chattel. Financial restitution cannot end racism, of course, but it can certainly mitigate racism’s most devastating effects.

24, Jun, 2020

Video: Workers First Caravan for Racial + Economic Justice

Thousands of working people across the country joined together on June 17 in a national day of action. We called for the Senate to pass the HEROES Act and for Congress to take actions to address structural racism. The HEROES Act is grounded in America’s Five Economic Essentials that are desperately needed to keep working people safe and financially secure. This day of action was just the beginning. Today and every day that follows, working people will mobilize like never before to make the HEROES Act the law of the land and rid our institutions of systemic racism.

22, Jun, 2020

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Resolution on Police Accountability and Systemic Racism

The Connecticut AFL-CIO Executive Board adopted the following resolution on police accountability and systemic racism earlier this morning.

19, Jun, 2020

SOLIDARITY ALERT: IAM on Strike at Pratt & Whitney

100 Days of Speaking Truth to Power

Hearst Connecticut (finally!) heads towards an election

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