Hartford, CT--Members and leaders of the nation's strongest and fastest growing union, the Service Employees International Union, tonight extend their congratulations to Joe Courtney for his reelection to the U.S. House from Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District.

In March, Courtney accepted the union's invitation to walk a day in the shoes" of working people, spending a morning with public school paraeducators and the children they serve in Hartford.

"SEIU members proved that they make politics work and elected a candidate who not only talks the talk, but walks the walk," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. "Now, instead of sitting back and waiting to see what happens, members are staying out in the streets and holding our new leaders accountable for the promises they made over this past campaign season on affordable health care and rebuild the middle class by restoring workers' freedom to join unions."

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