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To find your legislator: https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/menu/cgafindleg.asp Voter lookup page to check your registration: https://portaldir.ct.gov/sots/LookUp.aspx Online voter registration: https://voterregistration.ct.gov/OLVR/welcome.do SENATE 3 – SAUD ANWAR 4 – STEVE CASSANO 6 – RICK LOPES 9 – MATTHEW LESSER 11 – MARTY LOONEY 13 – MARY ABRAMS 16 – JACK PERRY 18 – BOB STATCHEN 19 – CATHY OSTEN 20 –
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The country’s top five labor union groups are calling on Congress to include expanded paid leave benefits in a new COVID-19 relief bill. “Never before have paid leave protections been more necessary,” the coalition of unions wrote in a letter to congressional leaders obtained by The Hill. The coalition, which includes the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers,
All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract with Connecticut’s Department of Social Services and Department of Developmental Services will receive a lump sum of hazard pay in the amount of 7.5% for all hours worked in the months of April, May and June 2020. The agreement between District 1199 and the State
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Topic: 1199 Chapter Meeting (Solnit South) Time: Jul 30, 2020 02:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71228135719?pwd=Q2FKbSsrZmw5eUZOZVFBbW04aFdhZz09 Meeting ID: 712 2813 5719 Passcode: chap1199
COVID-19
“Durante las últimas semanas hemos sido testigos una vez más de los asesinatos de personas afroamericanas de tal forma que nos recuerda los linchamientos de la era Jim Crow, previo a la legislación de derechos civiles para proteger a las minorías. Todos desarmados, las víctimas más recientes se suman a Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Tamir
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ICare Delegate meeting: Discuss info picket and layoffs Topic: Icare Delegates meeting Time: Jun 16, 2020 05:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Zoom Meeting Details https://zoom.us/j/91073737759 Meeting ID: 910 7373 7759 One tap mobile +16465588656,,91073737759# US (New York) +13017158592,,91073737759# US (Germantown) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New
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Join us via Zoom For a Delegate Assembly Tuesday, June 9th 2020 11:00 am – https://zoom.us/s/92180116052 Meeting ID: 921 8011 6052 OR 6:00 pm – https://zoom.us/s/91780792141 Meeting ID: 917 8079 2141
COVID-19
On Dec. 15, 2016, the nation’s largest nursing home lobby wrote a letter to Donald Trump, congratulating the president-elect and urging him to roll back new regulations on the long-term care industry. One item on the wish list was a recently issued emergency preparedness rule. It required nursing homes to draw up plans for hazards
State Employees
We are hosting a State Delegate meeting via Zoom on Thursday, May 28 at 11AM and a second meeting at 7PM. We will be discussing our 2020 – 2021 contract campaign so it is important that as many of our leaders participate as possible. You can access the call by clicking the links below.
As Connecticut leaders this week unveiled plans to ramp up testing among the most vulnerable communities hit by COVID-19, the number of infections and deaths at senior care facilities continued to rise, data released by the state Thursday shows. The data showed that as of Wednesday, 1,927 Connecticut nursing home patients died with coronavirus or