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• SEIU 1199NE Statement on Federal Decision to Remove Nursing From “Professional Degree” Classification
  December 1, 2025
  The federal government’s decision to exclude nursing from its list of “professional degrees” is deeply offensive to every caregiver who has committed their life to healing and protecting our communities. This is not simply a bureaucratic reclassification, it is the federal government targeting Registered Nurses and declaring who is and isn’t a healthcare “professional.” Our healthcare system cannot afford this setback. Nurses ARE professionals. For decades they organized to win the dignity and Read more...
• SEIU 1199NE response on the Arrest of SEIU California leader and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta
  June 9, 2025
  HARTFORD — SEIU 1199NE  condemns in the strongest terms the violent and unjust detention of SEIU California leader and SEIU-USWW President David Huerta by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while he was peacefully observing and protesting the agency’s raids in Los Angeles. David Huerta was born and raised in Los Angeles County. He is the son of a union member, a husband, and a father of two. He has spent his life fighting for the rights and dignity of low-wage and Read more...
• PCA Contract Lifting Hourly Wages to $23/hr Receives Final Approval
  March 26, 2024
  SEIU 1199NE, the New England Health Care Employees Union, is proud to announce that a new home care PCA contract was approved Monday in both chambers of Connecticut’s General Assembly. This final step to enact a new PCA contract ensures a $23 minimum wage for nearly 12,000 independent personal care attendants working in Connecticut. “Congratulations to all the union members of SEIU 1199NE for winning one of the best PCA contracts in the nation. Today’s victory to finalize this contract Read more...
• Home Care PCAs Optimistic as GT Independence Takes Over Payroll System
  November 8, 2023
  A new payroll agency for home care providers will replace Allied Community Services, following a plague of paycheck processing errors that afflicted thousands of PCAs and HUSKY patients for years.  Personal care attendants (PCAs) serving patients covered by Connecticut’s HUSKY Health/Medicaid are hopeful that the new agency, GT Independence, will drastically reduce the high volume of weekly paycheck errors, and establish improved customer service relations that helps both workers and Read more...
• Union Strike Ends with Two-Year Contracts, but Struggle to End Poverty Continues
  June 15, 2023
  Group home and day program members of the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, agreed to new contracts at six agencies in recent days, ending a weekslong strike that sought to end poverty for long-term caregivers. The new contracts cover the next two years, starting on July 1, 2023, with an option to reopen negotiations after the first year. Direct care providers will be receiving raises of approximately $1.25 an hour or more in the first year. “We have achieved agreements that Read more...