Labor Unions

The Connecticut Attorney General’s Office is planning to take the unusual step of going to court to remove a labor union as the distributor of a fund designed to help Sandy Hook shooting first responders and teachers.

According to federal and local authorities, 11 former high-ranking union officials, most from Long Island, have pleaded guilty to receiving bribes from a construction contractor.

A union representing about a dozen farm workers and their supporters protested outside of Pindar Vineyards’s outlet store in Port Jefferson over the weekend. They want to pressure winery owners to negotiate a contract with their union.

A coalition led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued Connecticut, saying its ban on "captive audience" meetings is preempted by federal labor law.

Almost 27% of people living and working on Long Island are in a labor union.

Employees at a Wantagh Starbucks want to unionize. It’s the fifth location on Long Island to seek union recognition.

While organized labor had high praise for Democratic Governor Ned Lamont at the opening day of the Connecticut AFL-CIO political convention on Thursday, workers urged him to do more to help fill numerous open positions in state government and across the state.

Connecticut’s advocates against gun violence say the bipartisan gun safety package proposed in the Senate is a good first step.

A Starbucks in West Hartford, Connecticut, has become the first unionized location in the state. Corbin's Corner Starbucks joins scores of other locations across the country to vote for a union.

Employees of the Merrick Road coffee shop voted to unionize on Tuesday with a final count of 19 to 8 in favor.