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AFL-CIO State of the Unions Address 2025

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

27 Aug, 2025 Read More >

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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

23 Jul, 2025

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.

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Labor Applauds Legislature for Including Funding for Essential Workers Sick with COVID-19

This fund will help potentially thousands of essential workers – healthcare workers, first responders, grocery store workers, bus drivers, corrections employees and many others – who contracted the novel coronavirus on the job through no fault of their own.

17, Jun, 2021

New Report Shows 26 Connecticut Workers Were Killed On The Job in 2019

View Report here: https://aflcio.org/reports/death-job-toll-neglect-2021

05, May, 2021

AFL-CIO, UFCW & Building Trades on Judiciary Committee Passing Cannabis Bill

We applaud the Judiciary Committee for recognizing that the best way to create good jobs in this new industry is to make labor peace agreements a condition of licensure.

06, Apr, 2021

NEW POLL: 77% of Americans Support Amazon Union Drive

More than three-quarters of Americans support workers' efforts to organize a union at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.

05, Apr, 2021

AFL-CIO Statement on Labor Committee Passing Workers' Compensation Presumption

Throughout the pandemic, the state has expected our essential workers to continue to show up to work every day and sometimes without adequate personal protective equipment. And they have. The least we can do is take care of them when they get sick.

25, Mar, 2021

AFL-CIO & UFCW Urges Legislature to Include Labor Peace in Legal Cannabis Bill

We thank the Black and Puerto Rican Caucus for announcing today that the inclusion of equity standards and labor peace in legalizing recreational use of cannabis is one of their top priorities.

25, Feb, 2021