Connecticut
Home care, group home, and nursing home workers are calling on Gov. Lamont to end the cycle of structural racism that devalues the work of Black, Brown, and working-class White women who make up the majority of the long-term care workforce. Caregivers, union leaders and community partners rallied at the Governor’s Mansion in Hartford in
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Still reeling financially from the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s nursing home industry could face strikes at more than 50 facilities this spring, an industry leader and a key state health official warned Wednesday morning. And while Gov. Ned Lamont just ordered more emergency aid to cash-strapped facilities, the state’s largest nursing home coalition said the support
Nursing Homes & Hospitals
Nursing home workers were active on the picket line at multiple Genesis nursing home facilities in demand of a new union contract that follows the guidelines of the Long-Term Care Workers Bill of Rights. Negotiations are currently ongoing with Genesis, whose contract with the union expired on March 15, 2021. If a new contract agreement
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Over 200 state healthcare workers, community partners and elected officials marched in Hartford to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and to demand the expansion of state services to meet the growing need of residents and communities all across Connecticut. Workers engaged in a “March for a Moral Budget” down Capitol