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Despite Relentless Attacks, Nearly Half a Million Workers Unionized in 2025

New data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows union representation grew by 463,000 in 2025, bringing the total number of workers represented by union contracts to 16.5 million.
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Despite Relentless Attacks, Nearly Half a Million Workers Unionized in 2025
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Major Court Victory Protects Captive Audience Law

Ed Hawthorne, President of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, made the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley granting Connecticut's motion for summary judgment and dismissing CBIA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s challenge to the state's captive audience law: This federal
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Major Court Victory Protects Captive Audience Law
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AFL-CIO: ICE Actions Are Putting Working People in Danger

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

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STRIKE: Machinists at Pratt & Whitney Going on Strike

STRIKE: Machinists at Pratt & Whitney Going on Strike

WALLINGFORD – Over 3,000 members of Machinist (IAM) Locals 700 and 1746 have overwhelmingly voted to go on strike at Pratt & Whitney’s Middletown and East Hartford plants, citing inadequate wage increases, weakening of their retirement benefits, rising health insurance costs,

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Connecticut public service workers send message to Congress: No public service cuts to pay for billionaire tax breaks

AFSCME members, the public service workers who keep Connecticut running, gathered in Mystic to sound the alarm on how federal funding cuts will devastate all public services, from education to infrastructure

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New AFL-CIO Report Finds Worker Deaths on the Job Continue, Will Worsen Under Trump Administration Policies

The AFL-CIO’s 34th annual ‘Death on the Job’ report provides a state-by-state analysis of threats to worker health and safety and policy recommendations for how the government can better protect workers

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