Videos

Sept. 18, 2025—UConn Labor Coalition invites Attorney General William Tong to the Low Learning Center for a town hall on the struggle with the Trump administration for federal investment in higher education, research, and health care. Other elected officials who joined remotely include U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and U.S. Reps. John Larson and Joe Courtney.

Chris DeFrancesco, our VP for communication, speaks in favor of the resolution "Fighting The Harmful Impacts Of Private Equity On Our Economy, Public Pension Funds And Healthcare System" at the AFT convention in Houston July 23, 2024:

See and hear VP Tier Ii Peter Zarabozo's tesimony before the Appropriations Committee April 18, 2022.

Trung Le, one of our front-line nurses, has been an outspoken advocate of on-the-job safety during the pandemic, sharing his first-hand account. See this video tribute that was just shown at the 2020 AFT Convention!

In harm’s way

One of the biggest storylines from the coronavirus pandemic is the lack of adequate personal protective equipment for healthcare workers in hospitals across the country. Trung Le’s hospital was no different. Le, a registered nurse with UConn Health and member of University Health Professionals/AFT Connecticut, often found himself reusing his PPE for a week or more.

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Governor Ned Lamont in mid March offered his personal thanks and gratitude to state employees weathering the impact of the global COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic on Connecticut. His message was amplified by public health professionals who provided personal infection prevention tips, help with identifying symptoms and steps for seeking text and treatment of the disease.

Click here to watch and share their collective public service message, prepared for the members of the unions in the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC). The project was spearheaded by the UConn Health Labor

This may be the most heartwarming 30 seconds you'll have in a long time!

The work AFT members have done over the past year has been phenomenal, and this new video captures it by showing the powerful gains we've made as we raised our voices in the streets, in the press and through collective bargaining.

We've won contracts that have improved schools by leaps and bounds, won legislation that's funded education and protected patients, and scored countless wins for working people and their communities.

When people lose power, they respond in one of two ways: agonize or organize. As a union, we choose organize every single time.

UHP delegates share their impressions of the 2018 AFT Convention in Pittsburgh.

(JUNE 27, 2018)--The ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court is in, siding, as expected, with the so-called "Right to Work" movement. Please watch this two-minute message from UHP President Bill Garrity and share with co-workers.