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The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, settled on a new contract for group home and day program workers at Network Inc. on Wednesday, cancelling the October 5th strike notification of 300-plus union members at the agency. Network Inc. is the first community programs agency (group home and day program providers) to
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The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, delivered strike notices at group home agencies Whole Life and Network with a deadline to begin striking on October 5th at 6:00 AM. Combined, the two agencies cover some 70 locations across the state with more than 500 union workers going on strike for new
Community Programs (CT)
Group home workers withdrew notices for a strike due to begin Friday morning after agreeing on a $184-million state funding package for the next two years. Over 2,100 caregivers were due for a strike Friday at 6:00 AM in demand of livable wages and benefits, affordable health insurance and a path to retirement as enumerated
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“Home care, group home, and nursing home workers are the invisible backbone of the healthcare system. All three of these workforces make poverty wages, forcing caregivers to work two, three or four jobs, all three lack access to affordable healthcare and they don’t have a real opportunity to retire. Like we’ve seen in many jobs
Community Programs (CT)
Strike notices due this Friday for six group home agencies in Connecticut were withdrawn and reset with a new strike deadline of June 4th at 6:00 AM in hopes of reaching a new agreement. Union group home workers are encouraged by Governor Ned Lamont’s outreach to discuss improved funding for their long-term care services, setting
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More than 2,000 workers at six group home agencies in Connecticut are ready to strike starting on May 21 at 6:00 AM. The six group home agencies receiving strike notifications Friday are Oak Hill, Network, Whole Life, Mosaic, Journey Found, and Sunrise at over 200 sites. Having assisted group home residents through the Covid-19 pandemic,
They don’t wear capes. But they do have masks. Doctors left their private practices to help staff emergency rooms and intensive care units. Nurses held the hands of dying patients too contagious to see their family members. At some nursing homes, employees continued to work even as the outbreak spread among residents and staff alike. In
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1199ers fought very hard to win our first increase for wages from DDS in over ten years. Now Mosaic management is claiming they “don’t have any information” in order to negotiate. On October 18th, the State told all the agencies it was committed to funding our raises. We went to the office on November 20th
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Hartford-Today a bill passed the Senate that would provide funding increases to non-profit agencies that service people with disabilities in group homes and day programs throughout the state. The bill would provide a $14.75 minimum wage and a 5% increase for workers above $14.75 effective January 1, 2019. 18,000 union and non-union workers who care
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Workers who care for the disabled in privatized group homes and day programs have issued strike notices to nine private agency providers that operate services in 250 locations throughout the state. The strike notices received by employers today state 2,400 workers will strike May 7th beginning at 6 AM. Workers had been set to strike