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Picture being developmentally disabled, out of work, and trying to navigate the labyrinth of obtaining unemployment benefits that has frustrated thousands of people with no disabilities. Or imagine trying to make your way in a wheelchair down a city sidewalk where shops and restaurants are now taking up former pedestrian space with curbside pickup and
Este correo electrónico estará disponible en español pronto. The twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racism have exposed that, too often, essential workers are treated as if we’re expendable. Over the past months, thousands of PCAs have signed petitions, made phone calls, attended planning meetings, protests and contract negotiations (in person and over Zoom)! These victories are a
Wearing a mask and speaking through a megaphone, Jesse Martin prompted a crowd that had gathered outside the state Department of Public Health building in Hartford late Thursday afternoon. “What do we want?” he asked. “Hazard pay!” the crowd yelled back. “When do we want it?” “Now!” Martin, vice president of labor union SEIU 1199NE,
State officials have announced that they’re scaling back COVID-19 testing at nursing homes and assisted living facilities. It’s a policy shift that comes as a major union representing eldercare workers said 14 of its members died after contracting COVID-19. Earlier this month, Gov. Ned Lamont ordered weekly mandatory tests for staff members at nursing homes and assisted
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“Durante las últimas semanas hemos sido testigos una vez más de los asesinatos de personas afroamericanas de tal forma que nos recuerda los linchamientos de la era Jim Crow, previo a la legislación de derechos civiles para proteger a las minorías. Todos desarmados, las víctimas más recientes se suman a Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Tamir
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As a shuttle bus driver at Yale New Haven Hospital, Denise Rogers constantly came in close contact with nurses and other health care workers as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading swiftly. She eventually contracted COVID-19 herself after spending all day in her full-time job in the enclosed vehicle. But when Rogers tried to receive workers
Since April, Rhode Island nursing homes have received over $50 million dollars in state and federal funding in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This is on top of the $242 million they made in profit from 2017-2018. Raise the Bar on Resident Care held a press conference to call for immediate investment in nursing home safe staffing by passing the Nursing
Join us at Bushnell Park’s North Hill by the State Capitol as we remember and honor thousands of long-term care workers and residents/clients affected by COVID-19. Too many nursing home residents, home care consumers and group home clients have died from novel coronavirus complications or fallen sick in Connecticut. Despite all the risks involved and
The president of the local union that represents nursing home workers said the state has treated them as if they “were invisible” as the deaths mounted in facilities across the state and that new laws are needed to protect them if the coronavirus were to return. During a conference call to discuss possible legislation that
State residents may feel confined by social and work restrictions brought on by COVID-19, but for prisoners and workers in Connecticut’s jails the luxury of self-isolating at home doesn’t exist. The idea of “loosening up” and finding the “new normal” in our prisons is a long way off. We’re still “popping positives” for COVID-19 while