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AFL-CIO: ICE Actions Are Putting Working People in Danger

09 Jan, 2026

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement: The Trump administration's reckless Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations are trampling on working people's fundamental rights and freedoms: to work with dignity and raise our families without the threat of violence from our

AFL-CIO Condemns Job-Threatening Order to Stop Offshore Wind Projects

23 Dec, 2025

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration ordering work to stop on offshore wind projects along the East Coast: President Trump's attempt to abruptly scuttle East Coast wind projects, leaving thousands of workers in limbo during the holiday

AFL-CIO Stands in Solidarity with Striking Starbucks Workers

13 Nov, 2025 Read More >

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Ed Hawthorne & Shellye Davis at 2025 Convention

CT AFL-CIO Convention Unanimously Re-Elects President Ed Hawthorne & Secretary-Treasurer Shellye Davis

MASHANTUCKET – Nearly 300 delegates from 98 local affiliate unions unanimously elected President Ed Hawthorne (AFSCME) and Secretary-Treasurer Shellye Davis (AFT) to their second terms in office at the Connecticut AFL-CIO's Sixteenth Biennial Constitutional Convention.

07, Nov, 2025

AFL-CIO State of the Unions Address 2025

AFL-CIO President: ‘The State of Our Unions Is Under Attack and Fighting Back’

The leader of the nation’s largest labor federation emphasized, ‘Working people are going to save ourselves,’ in third annual address

27, Aug, 2025

Statement on Trump Administration's Stop Work Order of Revolution Wind

25, Aug, 2025

New AFL-CIO Report: Nation's Top CEOs Made 285 Times Workers' Pay in 2024

New research shows that S&P 500 CEOs got an average $1.24 million raise last year and made an average of $18.9 million in total compensation.

23, Jul, 2025

Labor Leaders, Workers Rally to Launch AFL-CIO’s 'It's Better in a Union' Nationwide Bus Tour

(Washington, D.C.)—Labor leaders and workers rallied today at the AFL-CIO headquarters to launch the nationwide “It’s Better in a Union: Fighting for Freedom, Fairness and Security” bus tour.

09, Jul, 2025

Labor Leaders Respond to Lamont’s Veto of Critical Pro-Worker Legislation

"Gov. Lamont has once again sided with corporate CEOs over the hardworking people of Connecticut." –Ed Hawthorne, President of the Connecticut AFL-CIO

23, Jun, 2025