COVID-19
Please see below the links to the health center web sites. This is the best means to access FREE testing … Continue reading Free Testing for Asymptomatic or Symptomatic PCAs
Union Home Care Workers Win 7.5% Increase in Hazard Pay All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract … Continue reading Home Care – August 2020 Newsletter
All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract with Connecticut’s Department of Social Services and Department of Developmental … Continue reading Union Home Care Workers Win 7.5% Increase in Hazard Pay
Connecticut
HARTFORD – The State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) today issued the following statement on Governor Ned Lamont’s executive order … Continue reading State Unions Coalition Lauds Gov. Lamont’s Action to Protect Frontline Essential Workers
COVID-19
In a virtual hearing Tuesday, nursing home operators were grilled about why so many patients died of COVID-19. Nursing home … Continue reading Nursing home administrators offer mixed answers for COVID outbreaks, deaths
Connecticut
Long-term caregivers keep fighting on the front lines to protect Connecticut’s most vulnerable populations. Nursing home workers, home care workers, … Continue reading Support the Long-Term Care Workers’ Bill of Rights
One night in April, after coming off her shift at a Farmington nursing home, Chasity Williams started to feel sick. … Continue reading ‘Sad and tragic:’ Federal nursing home data show at least 3,400 staffers infected, 14 dead
For me, July 1 is my “a little more Independence Day.” I’m getting a raise from $15.85 to $16.25 an hour, along … Continue reading “Home care workers like me deserve a wage that provides dignity and respect”
Este correo electrónico estará disponible en español pronto. The twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racism have exposed that, too often, … Continue reading Home Care – Raises, Hazard Pay, Masks & Holiday Pay coming up – Updates 7.1.20
State officials have announced that they’re scaling back COVID-19 testing at nursing homes and assisted living facilities. It’s a policy … Continue reading Lamont Allows Reduced Testing Of Nursing Home Workers, Cites Changing Federal Guidance