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1199 Group Home & Day Program Workers Strike

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CT AFL-CIO Statement on Start of Second Week of Group Home Workers Strike

31 May, 2023 Read More >

UFCW Local 919 - First CT Cannabis Union

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Advanced Grow Labs Forms Connecticut’s First Cannabis Union with UFCW Local 919

15 May, 2023 Read More >

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Unions Representing 7,500 Paraeducators are Outraged at Paraeducator Bill Dying in Committee

21 Apr, 2023

Paraeducator leaders with AFT Connecticut, CSEA SEIU Local 2001, AFSCME Council 4, MEUI/SEIU Local 506, and UAW Region 9A made the following statements in response to

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Top Connecticut Unions Applaud Passage of Cannabis Bill

CT working families need an economy that puts them first. With this bill, CT can create thousands of good-paying cannabis jobs that will strengthen our communities and help to speed our economic recovery.

17, Jun, 2021

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