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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

Joint Statement of Rhode Island AFL-CIO President Patrick Crowley and Connecticut AFL-CIO President Ed Hawthorne on the Trump Administration’s Stop Work Order of Revolution Wind "If it stands, the administration’s stop work order on the Revolution Wind project will eliminate local jobs and threaten

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. (Washington, D.C.)—S&P 500 CEOs took home an average of $18.9 million in total compensation in 2024—a 7% pay raise from the previous year—according to a new

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Increase in Job Fatalities Highlights Need for Worker Protections

Too many of America’s workers are being killed on the job and face dangerous working conditions.

16, Dec, 2020

Pro-Worker Candidates Win Across Connecticut

From the State House to the U.S. House of Representatives, pro-worker candidates won up and down the ballot throughout Connecticut.

05, Nov, 2020

AFL-CIO, Chamber of Commerce, National Faith Leaders Call for Votes to Be Counted

Labor, business & faith leaders agree: All votes must be counted!

03, Nov, 2020

AFL-CIO Releases Its Annual Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect Report

Each day in this country, an average of 275 workers die because of occupational illness and injuries. In Connecticut, there were 48 workplace deaths in 2018 alone.

09, Oct, 2020

Ginsburg One of America’s Greatest Jurists

America has lost one of the greatest jurists in our nation’s history. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her career defending the Constitution and the everyday working people who bring that document to life.

18, Sep, 2020

Endorsements from the Connecticut AFL-CIO Political Convention

At the Connecticut AFL-CIO's Thirteenth Biennial Political Convention today, delegates endorsed pro-worker candidates from the U.S. House to the State House.

04, Sep, 2020