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Windham Town Hall Employees: New Contract, 100% Membership

Windham Town Hall Employees: New Contract, 100% Membership

Sep. 28, 2018

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Windham Town Hall Employees: New Contract, 100% Membership

The value of union membership has become increasingly apparent in these precarious times as working people fight the blunt impact of an economy rigged by corporate and wealthy special interests.

Windham Town Hall Employees: New Contract, 100% Membership

A Decade Later: Four Ways Working People Are Still Paying for the 2008 Financial Crisis

A Decade Later: Four Ways Working People Are Still Paying for the 2008 Financial Crisis

Sep. 20, 2018

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A Decade Later: Four Ways Working People Are Still Paying for the 2008 Financial Crisis

It was 10 years ago this month that the 2008 financial crisis kicked into high gear.

A Decade Later: Four Ways Working People Are Still Paying for the 2008 Financial Crisis

Working America: In Connecticut, Working For Us

Sep. 13, 2018

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Sep. 13, 2018

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Working America: In Connecticut, Working For Us

We have exciting news to report.

Working America: In Connecticut, Working For Us

Don’t Like Wealth Inequality? Join a Union

Sep. 02, 2018

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Sep. 02, 2018

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Don’t Like Wealth Inequality? Join a Union

No politician running for office today would openly advocate for more wealth inequality in our country, where the richest 1 percent of the population owns 40 percent of the wealth. Even candidate Donald Trump in 2016 promised to stand up for the “forgotten men and women of our country,” who feel betrayed by a rigged economic system that benefits a small minority at their expense. Yet every single day, President Trump and congressional leaders seem determined to do more to increase wealth inequality than to alleviate it; do more for corporations and the wealthy than for single parents working two or three jobs to make ends meet.

Don’t Like Wealth Inequality? Join a Union

Local 269 Member Ed Hawthorne a Committed Volunteer in Politics

Local 269 Member Ed Hawthorne a Committed Volunteer in Politics

Aug. 31, 2018

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Local 269 Member Ed Hawthorne a Committed Volunteer in Politics

Ed Hawthorne of AFSCME Local 269 (State P-2 Human and Social Services) views political engagement as an absolute necessity for union members in an age of unprecedented legislative and judicial attacks on organized labor.

Local 269 Member Ed Hawthorne a Committed Volunteer in Politics