230 union leaders attended the Connecticut AFL-CIO’s Sixteenth Biennial Political Convention, including CSEA leaders. 

This year’s convention came at an important time for CSEA members. State workers are preparing for major fights over pensions and healthcare. Paraeducators are building toward the 2027 legislative session and the fight for a $45,000 salary. Retirees are organizing to protect Social Security, pensions and healthcare. Across every council, members are facing the same basic question: whether Connecticut will invest in working people or continue asking them to do more with less.

CSEA’s presence at the convention helped make sure our members’ voices were part of that conversation. The labor movement is strongest when workers across unions see each other’s fights as connected. Whether we work in schools, state agencies, higher education, child care, corrections, healthcare, maintenance, public safety or retirement advocacy, we know that none of us wins alone.