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DCF Program Managers Say 'UNION YES'; Join Council 4 AFSCME

Seeking a stronger voice at work, more than 100 Program Managers for the Department of Children and Families (DCF) voted decisively to unionize and join Council 4 AFSCME.

28, Aug, 2017

Working People at their Best as Hurricane Harvey Delivers Havoc in Major Portions of Texas; Here’s One Way to Help

Hurricane Harvey, a storm of historic proportions, is the biggest natural disaster working people in Texas have faced.

28, Aug, 2017

Why I Served on Trump’s Manufacturing Council—And Why I Left

In January, I was invited to serve on President Donald Trump’s manufacturing council, along with my boss, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

25, Aug, 2017

Richard Trumka: Why I Quit Trump’s Business Council

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump stood in the lobby of his tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and again made excuses for bigotry and terrorism, effectively repudiating the remarks his staff wrote a day earlier in response to the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va.

17, Aug, 2017

Lori Pelletier: ‘Either you respect collective bargaining or you don’t’

Lori J. Pelletier, the president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, raised eyebrows by organizing a picket line outside the state Democratic Party’s annual fundraiser last year to protest a Democratic governor and legislature for opting to lay off unionized state workers instead of raising taxes on the rich.

14, Aug, 2017

Legislative Session: Victories, Losses, and a Budget Still to Come

The General Assembly adjourned the regular 2017 legislative session sine die at midnight on Wednesday, June 7.

19, Jun, 2017