Connecticut AFL-CIO Reacts to 2024 Election Results

Ed Hawthorne, President of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, made the following statement in response to the 2024 election results:

While the results nationally are not what we hoped for, working people in Connecticut can take solace in the fact that pro-worker candidates across our state had significant victories.

Union members like Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (NEA), Sen. Jan Hochadel (AFT), Sen. Julie Kushner (UAW), Sen. Martha Marx (AFT), Sen.-Elect Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox (AAUP), Rep. Tom Delnicki (AFSCME), Rep. Kara Rochelle (OPEIU), Rep.-Elect Kaitlyn Shake (CHCA), and Rep.-Elect Nick Menapace (NEA) all won. A large number of other union members and pro-worker candidates won their elections on Tuesday as well.

Volunteers from our unions knocked on the doors of over 50,000 members and their families, made nearly 7,000 calls to get out the vote, sent more than 14,000 text messages, and mailed over 110,000 pieces of mail. Their effort and dedication to supporting pro-union candidates made the difference in many of these races.

Regardless of the results, labor will do what we always do: organize and fight for all working people in our state and our nation. Presidential administrations change, but the labor movement’s values do not.

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