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Community Programs (CT)

Union Group Home Workers Withdraw Strike Notices After $184-Million Agreement

  • June 4, 2021

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

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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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State Employees

State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

  • May 24, 2021

Legislators, Recovery For All Connecticut coalition, frontline doctors, nurses, mental health staff, social workers, and other state healthcare workers will rally alongside service recipients and community allies Monday to demand

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Community Programs (CT)

Group Home Caregivers Delay Strike in Hopes of New Union Contract

  • May 20, 2021

Strike notices due this Friday for six group home agencies in Connecticut were withdrawn and reset with a new strike deadline of June 4th at 6:00 AM in hopes of

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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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Featured Post

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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Press Releases

Press Conference for Union Update on Friday’s Pending Nursing Home Strike

  • May 12, 2021

Connecticut nursing home union workers provide updates on the #Strike set to begin Friday at 6:00 AM. Quotes by Rob Baril, President District 1199NE, SEIU, on the new strike date set 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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Long Term Care

Additional Nursing Home Strike Notices Sent for Six Facilities Starting May 28

  • May 10, 2021

More than 600 workers at six nursing homes in Connecticut will join the strike line on May 28 at 6:00 AM. The six nursing homes that received strike notifications today

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Yale Law School Clinic and 1199NE Release Major Report on Nursing Home Working Conditions amid Potential Strike at 33 Facilities

  • May 10, 2021

With a potential strike of 3,400 workers at 33 nursing homes pending this Friday, the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic (WIRAC) of the Yale Law School and SEIU District

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