HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) — With most of the country preparing to celebrate the Labor Day weekend, leaders of Connecticut's labor movement joined Sen. Richard Blumenthal to criticize the Trump administration over a series of federal policies they say amount to a frontal assault on workers' rights.

"This Labor Day, the labor movement is under attack," Ed Hawthorne, the head of the Connecticut AFL-CIO, said.

The federal changes that Hawthorne and Blumenthal cited affect scores of workers across numerous industries.

One of the rule changes proposed by the Trump Labor Department would see home healthcare workers, who number some 3.7 million, according to the Associated Press, no longer guaranteed the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

Those workers could also become ineligible for overtim

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