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Health Care Frontline Staff to Rally at Capitol in Demand of Response and Action to District 1199’s Petition Letter Recently Delivered to Gov. Ned Lamont

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022

Union health care workers from the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, held a rally at the Capitol in demand of an official response and corresponding action to the Union’s petition letter regarding adjustments to the state’s budget. Budget adjustments are needed now to ensure that the new union contracts establishing livable wages,

Nursing Home Workers Protest Poverty Pay and Benefits as Third Year of Working Through Pandemic Looms

February 23, 2022February 24, 2022

SEIU 1199 New England members, who provide care to patients and keep St. Mary’s nursing home running, rallied outside the facility to bring attention to the crisis of low pay that makes it difficult to care for their families even as they care for others. St. Mary Home, which is operated by Trinity Health Senior

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Connecticut Patients, Providers, Advocates to Detail Policy, Budget Priorities for State’s Mental Health Crisis to Gov. Lamont, Legislative Leaders

February 3, 2022April 20, 2022

Following a January mental health symposium with state legislators, a statewide coalition of mental health advocates will send Governor Lamont and Legislative leaders a roadmap for fully funding mental health and addiction services as the state grapples with a skyrocketing need for mental healthcare in the midst of the pandemic and plummeting staffing levels, creating

District 1199 New England Celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with Pilot Program Cohort in Nursing Aide Apprentice Partnership with Genesis HealthCare

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021

On Tuesday, November 16 at 1:00 PM, District 1199 New England celebrated National Apprenticeship Week at St. Joseph’s Center nursing home in Trumbull with the State of Connecticut Department of Labor Interim Commissioner and Chair of the State of Connecticut Apprenticeship Council Danté Bartolomeo, Genesis HealthCare administrators, and the state’s first cohort of CNA apprentices.

Community Programs (CT)

The Strike At Sunrise Ends

October 18, 2021December 9, 2021

Tuesday, December 8th, 2021, the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, reached an Agreement for a new contract for group home and day program workers at Sunrise Northeast, Inc. This Agreement, once ratified by the membership, will end the members’ two month strike. Sunrise operates 28 group home and day programs serving

State Employees

Long-Term Care Workers Join SEBAC Press Conference for Fair Contracts with the State

July 13, 2021July 15, 2021

Connecticut’s independent home care workers will join SEBAC state workers in demand of a fair contract that lifts long-term care workers out of poverty. SEIU District 1199’s union contract with the State of Connecticut covers some 10,000 independent home care personal care attendants serving 6,000 people across the state. Today is the Service Employees International Union Day of

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At ‘Recovery for All’ rally, workers call on governor to address inequality

May 17, 2021May 24, 2021

Hundreds of immigrants, long-term health care workers, teachers and students from across the state surrounded the steps of the state Capitol Monday evening — a sea of red, green, blue and purple union shirts — chanting “Governor Lamont, do your job,” as a demand for the state to invest in workers and communities. The Tax

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Violent attacks against Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities must end now

April 7, 2021April 8, 2021

SEIU members are standing together and sending our love, support and prayers to the victims and their families, as well as the entire Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community in Georgia and across the country who have been heavily targeted with racism and violence. We continue to demand justice on behalf of all families who

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OP-ED from CT News Junkie – I AM A MAN

April 4, 2021April 5, 2021

Sunday, April 4th, we will observe Easter, a Christian tradition celebrating the defeat of death and the hope for redemption. But April 4th is also the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis. I was there then, in Memphis, a young girl in 1968, when it seemed

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Priority Access to the COVID-19 vaccine for PCAs

January 25, 2021February 24, 2021

As a Union, we are committed to keeping PCAs informed on opportunities to gain priority access to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine. Please note that appointments are filling quickly, so we urge you to sign up today. There are now 2 primary ways for PCAs and Direct Support Professionals to sign up for priority

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Nursing Home Workers Protest Poverty Pay and Benefits as Third Year of Working Through Pandemic Looms

Connecticut Patients, Providers, Advocates to Detail Policy, Budget Priorities for State’s Mental Health Crisis to Gov. Lamont, Legislative Leaders

District 1199 New England Celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with Pilot Program Cohort in Nursing Aide Apprentice Partnership with Genesis HealthCare

The Strike At Sunrise Ends

Long-Term Care Workers Join SEBAC Press Conference for Fair Contracts with the State

At ‘Recovery for All’ rally, workers call on governor to address inequality

Violent attacks against Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities must end now

OP-ED from CT News Junkie – I AM A MAN

Priority Access to the COVID-19 vaccine for PCAs

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