Connecticut

Civil Rights Committee Movie Night

The AFSCME Council 4 Civil Rights Committee is hosting a "Soul Food Summer Drive-In" movie series outside Council 4 headquarters in New Britain.

On Sept. 18, the featured movie will be At The River I Standhis moving documentary recounts the two months leading to Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in 1968, coinciding with the 65-day strike of 1300 Memphis sanitation workers.

The Civil Rights Committee Movie Night is for Council 4 members and family only.

Civil Rights Committee Drive-In Movie Night (Postponed Until Sept. 25)

NOTE: This movie was previously scheduled for Sept. 11 but moved to Sept. 18 because of anticipated inclement weather.

The AFSCME Council 4 Civil Rights Committee is hosting a "Soul Food Summer Drive-In" movie series outside Council 4 headquarters in New Britain.

On Sept. 18, the featured movie will be American Son, starring Kerry Washington. 

The Civil Rights Committee Movie Night is for Council 4 members and family only.

Suggested arrival time is 8:00 p.m.

Labor Day Holiday

Council 4 headquarters will be closed in observance of the 2020 Labor Day holiday.

Enjoy the long weekend, and thanks to the many public service we represent who will be working during the holiday weekend, including correctional officers, DCF Care Line staff, 911 dispatchers, police officers and more.

Click here for our latest Council 4 Unplugged podcast. 

On this episode, recorded Aug. 12, 2020, Michele Evermore of the National Employment Law Project and Xavier Gordon of AFSCME Local 269, representing the CT Department of Labor, join us to discuss the struggles facing unemployed workers and the political fight over unemployment insurance benefits.

It did not take long for the COVID-19 crisis to hit home for Ginny Ligi, an eight-year correction officer at the Cheshire Correctional Institution. In early April, she tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

“The virus literally knocked me off my feet for three weeks,” said Ligi, the union secretary for AFSCME Local 387 (NP-4 Corrections Bargaining Unit). “It was like I had vertigo on top of not being able to breathe well.”