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Community Programs (CT)

Group Home and Home Care Workers Rally for Living Wages and Benefits

  • May 27, 2021

“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

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Home Care

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

  • May 17, 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

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Union Gets Icare Contract with $20/hr Minimum for CNAs and $30/hr Minimum for LPNs

  • May 13, 2021

Union nursing home workers at Icare facilities agreed to a new contract that sets a historic $20 per hour minimum wage for certified nursing assistants and $30 per hour for

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Governor’s Nursing Home Proposal Fails to Address Poverty Wages and Staffing

  • May 11, 2021

Governor Ned Lamont’s economic proposal in a recent letter to the Union from OPM Secretary Melissa McCaw clearly falls short of the allocation of resources necessary to both lift nursing

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Home Care

Moms Are Caregivers : OP-ED from CT News Junkie

  • May 9, 2021

This Mother’s Day, my hope is that all mothers, but especially those of us who are caregivers to children with special needs, will gain the ability to care for our

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Community Programs (CT)

Union Workers Deliver Strike Notices at Six Group Home Agencies

  • May 7, 2021

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

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