CT WFP Supports Call for a Fairer Connecticut
"Raising the minimum wage, expanding paid sick days, and passing pay equity legislation are meaningful steps to put Connecticut back on track." ... More
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Press Release: Legislature Should Support A Pro-Worker Agenda for Economic Growth
Feb. 6, 2018 -- The Connecticut Working Families Organization released its 2018 legislative agenda, a series of concrete and common sense policy recommendations designed to spur economic growth by empowering workers, reducing inequality, ... More
Press: NY and National Leaders Call on IDC to End Alliance With Republicans
The effort to unite a progressive majority in the NY state senate is gaining steam. As the 2017 New York state legislative session drew to a close without action on the urgent priorities in the Resistance Agenda, national leaders including Demos Action ... More
Action: Tell New York Democrats to stop acting like Republicans
Read the following message that actor and activist Cynthia Nixon sent to Working Families Party supporters in New York: Friend -- Hi, I’m Cynthia Nixon. If you know me, you probably know at least a few things: I am an actor and ... More
New York Resistance Agenda
(Share this post on Medium here.) The Trump regime is a threat to our democracy as well as the rights and well-being of millions of New Yorkers. While people across the country are fighting back, here in New ... More
NJ Working Families Alliance 2017 Platform
In November 2016, New Jersey Working Families Alliance held a Working Families Summit, developing a policy agenda to move the state's working families forward. ... More
Take Back the State! Register for NJWFA Summit!
Be part of the movement to rebuild a Post-Christie New Jersey! For the past 8 years, New Jersey has suffered under an incompetent governor whose greedy policies have constantly put the ... More
NYWFP: New York Must Be a Bulwark Against Trumpism
WFP NY State Director Bill Lipton made the following statement in response to the election results: For the second time in sixteen years, the Electoral College -- a mechanism conceived by our Founding Fathers, at least in part, to placate slaveholding ... More
Video: Bernie Sanders and Nina Turner at WFP Gala
On September 15th, 2016, the New York Working Families Party held our 18th Annual Gala Celebration at the historic Great Hall at Cooper Union, with honorees and speakers including Senator Bernie Sanders, Nina Turner, Juan González, and Mayor Bill de ... More
Calling for Fair Deal from Sagamore
PORT3 Coalition Decries Sagamore's Affordable Housing Offer, Calls on Company To Do More Than the Bare Minimum Coalition of Community Groups Release Open Letter On Why They Cannot Accept Sagamore's Affordable Housing Offer Baltimore-- Today the PORT3 coalition of ... More