Connecticut
Union delegates resolve to build record voter turnout
August 23, 2010HARTFORD, Conn. -- Union activists pledge to knock on 36,000 doors before Election Day in this battleground state.
Read moreCaravan brings aid to striking workers
July 30, 2010NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Elected officials, union members and community supporters piled into a school bus and seven cars last Saturday, July 24, for a 10 mile solidarity caravan in support of nursing home workers on...
Read moreMachinists vow fight for jobs for all workers
July 12, 2010MERIDEN, Conn. - "Brothers and sisters, are you ready to fight?" "Yes!" shouted Machinists members and their families, wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Fighting for my job and yours."
Read moreAppeals court bars Pratt & Whitney from moving jobs
July 8, 2010EAST HARTFORD, Conn. - Workers at Pratt & Whitney, owned by the profitable United Technologies Corp., have won a major court decision protecting their jobs.
Read moreRuth Emerson, civil rights leader
July 8, 2010NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Judges and lawyers, professors and educators, family and friends all spoke fondly of Ruth Calvin Emerson at the celebration of her life held at the New Haven Peoples Center on June 26.
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