Union members and advocates gathered at the State Capitol in Hartford Saturday to bring attention to legislation to pay ...

On June 23, 2025, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont vetoed the state legislature’s latest attempt to provide unemployment compensation benefits to strikers. The vetoed bill, entitled “An Act Concerning ...

Initial filings for unemployment benefits in Connecticut dropped last week compared with the week prior, the U.S. Department of Labor said Thursday. New jobless claims, a proxy for layoffs, fell to ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. Across Connecticut, the number of people employed or actively searching for a job has dropped in recent months — a possible ...

E d Hawthorne has been re-elected as the president of the Connecticut AFL-CIO labor federation - an endorsement that he ...

The state Department of Labor is raising the maximum unemployment insurance benefit rate from $504 per week to $869 per week beginning next Monday, and benefit checks will reflect the change the ...

The demonstration coincided with the Senate’s special session to advance a housing bill designed to expand the state’s rental ...