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State Employees

Details for the Delegate Assembly – RSVP by Monday 5/25!

  • May 22, 2020

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

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Connecticut

‘Money Bags and Body Bags’ protest rolls through affluent Greenwich neighborhoods

  • May 22, 2020

A noisy caravan of union demonstrators descended on Greenwich on Thursday afternoon, putting a spotlight on what they say are the health risks and medical burdens faced by service workers

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Featured Post

They Look After Our Most Vulnerable. They Make Around $16,200 a Year.

  • May 20, 2020

It’s 3 a.m. and Kim Rockwood, a health care worker, is driving to her patients’ homes — even during the coronavirus pandemic — to help them take medication or go

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COVID-19

Progressives look to bring CT’s tax fairness debate to the grassroots level

  • May 19, 2020

The next Connecticut income tax debate is heating up — but not at the Capitol. A key state legislative caucus is crafting a letter urging town and city councils, local

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COVID-19

‘We’re essential workers and we’re hurting right now’: Coronavirus is taking a devastating toll on nursing home employees

  • May 18, 2020

With the coronavirus tearing through the Chelsea Place Care Center in Hartford, Cassondra Diaz was careful to take precautions. She always wore a mask, even though she worked as a

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COVID-19

Data: 70% of CT coronavirus-linked deaths have occurred in senior care facilities

  • May 15, 2020

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

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Connecticut

DMHAS Workers Participate in Caravan to Protect Essential Mental Health Services during COVID-19 Pandemic

  • May 14, 2020

State mental health workers participated in a car caravan Thursday to express their concerns over the growing denial of care services at the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers say they’re still not getting enough PPE

  • May 14, 2020

Nursing home workers lined the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, demanding PPE. They say their companies are not providing enough of it and want the state to step in.

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COVID-19

US nursing homes seek legal immunity as Covid-19 spreads ‘like brushfire’

  • May 14, 2020

The US nursing home industry is clamoring for legal immunity during the coronavirus pandemic, even as horror stories from hard-hit facilities enrage families, consumer advocates and the American public. Healthcare

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COVID-19

Widespread testing has begun at nursing homes. So far, staff are excluded

  • May 13, 2020

Widespread testing at nursing homes across Connecticut has begun, part of a push by Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to curb the spread of COVID-19 among one of the state’s most vulnerable populations.

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