Joelle Fishman
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman
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Labor
California Amazon Workers get support at Connecticut warehouse
July 13, 2023Teamsters from Boston, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey brave heat wave to back their brothers and sisters in California.
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Politics
Golden Rule Peace Boat welcomed in Connecticut
July 7, 2023“The Golden Rule, with its simple message of peace, nuclear abolition, nonviolence, and environmental sustainability, reminds us that there is another way.”
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Labor
Connecticut group home workers end strike but continue struggle against poverty
June 20, 2023The contract demands were connected to the state budget fight.
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Labor
Connecticut caregivers strike attracts national support to end poverty wages
June 9, 2023“Imagine what it is like to be someone who can’t eat until we show up.”
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Labor
1,700 Connecticut caregivers facing poverty go on strike at six group homes
May 26, 2023Their demands: $25-an-hour wages, affordable health insurance, and a pension they can count on in retirement.
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U.S.
Rally at Connecticut State Capitol demands ‘Equity Can’t Wait’
May 22, 2023Mass rally calls on lawmakers to pass a “moral” budget funding living wages and human needs.
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Labor
Connecticut union health care workers conduct civil disobedience ‘die-in’
March 3, 2023Rejecting the idea that personal care workers should live in poverty, they laid down on the floor and took arrest in the state’s Legislative Office Building.
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U.S.
Yale graduate teachers and researchers vote to unionize
January 13, 2023A 30-year organizing effort results in victory this week.
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