Joelle Fishman

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman

• Labor

  

  Machinists, 3,000 strong, strike Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut

  May 6, 2025 By Joelle Fishman

  Hit picket lines because company refused to move on demands for security, pensions, and wages.

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• Labor

  

  People’s World Amistad Awards event pledges solidarity: We Won’t Go Back

  December 20, 2024 By Jahmal Henderson And Joelle Fishman

  As one awardee said, “We don’t win by ourselves; everything we win, we win together.”

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• Labor

  

  Harris-Walz ticket makes historic campaign launch at UAW union hall

  August 12, 2024 By John Wojcik And Joelle Fishman

  Massive anti-MAGA coalition mobilizes to defeat Donald Trump and elect Kamala Harris, the first African-American woman as president, and union member Tim Walz as vice president.

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• Labor

  

  Connecticut AFL-CIO gears up to build worker power

  July 2, 2024 By Joelle Fishman And Jahmal Henderson

  Elections seen as critical avenue to build working class power.

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• Labor

  

  California Amazon Workers get support at Connecticut warehouse

  July 13, 2023 By Joelle Fishman And Waleed Ahmad

  Teamsters 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 By Joelle Fishman

  “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, 2023 By Joelle Fishman

  The 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 By Joelle Fishman

  “Imagine what it is like to be someone who can’t eat until we show up.”

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