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New Haven Rising, a grassroots labor organization, honored Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of economic justice at their annual event, highlighting labor wins on a local and national scale.

The two alder candidates for Ward 15 spent election day arguing about alleged violations of election law, leading one candidate to call the police on the other.

Before December, "I had never seen anyone die," Addie Kimbrough told a room full of police, prosecutors, clergy, and politicians. Until, on the block…

NEW HAVEN, Conn —  An historic 30 year organizing effort was victorious this week adding 3,000 new union members at Yale University as graduate teachers and researchers  voted in a landslide to unionize as Local 33–UNITE HERE.

Top Democrats from across Connecticut descended on a Crown Street pizzeria the night before Election Day to make their final case to voters in the…

NEW HAVEN - In the last nine years the list of wins would take up this entire article.  This year Unite Here Local 34 celebrated ratification of our 9th contract with Yale University.

NEW HAVEN - In the last nine years the list of wins would take up this entire article.  This year Unite Here Local 34 celebrated ratification of our 9th contract with Yale University.

For millions of workers, getting through the pandemic has been a major struggle for survival, while the largest corporations have enriched their wealth.  The pandemic exposed the systemic, raw inequities in health, housing, and employment for Black and Latino families who suffered more losses.

Asked what the experience meant to them, the answers of the panelists varied from “We have to go harder, holding our elected officials accountable,” to the need to empower people, the importance of voting, directing the youthful passion at the doors, and strengthening the unity of Black and brown Georgians. These stories of overcoming challenges and inspiration found in the Georgia communities were life-changing and humbling events that panelists said stay with them forever, giving motivati...