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OP-ED | Home Care Workers Call For Higher Pay, Benefits

  • August 2, 2021

“As a union home care worker, I feel that our pain must be heard, our struggles understood, and that those in leadership must take all actions necessary to make sure

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Strike notices due this Friday for six group home agencies in Connecticut were withdrawn and reset with a new strike deadline of June 4th at 6:00 AM in hopes of

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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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Strikes possible at more than 50 CT nursing homes this spring

  • April 15, 2021

Still reeling financially from the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s nursing home industry could face strikes at more than 50 facilities this spring, an industry leader and a key state health official

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Peaceful Civil Disobedience in Hartford to Demand Funding for Long-Term Care

  • April 9, 2021

Union long-term care workers and leaders were detained for acts of peaceful civil disobedience Thursday in Hartford in demand that the state provide funding to pay for structural changes that

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State Healthcare Workers March for a Moral Budget to Expand Services

  • April 7, 2021

Over 200 state healthcare workers, community partners and elected officials marched in Hartford to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and to demand the expansion of

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Connecticut

Long-Term Care Workers Stop Traffic in Fight Against Poverty Wages

  • March 10, 2021

More than 100 long-term care workers blocked traffic in Hartford at the Department of Social Services to draw attention to the treatment of caregivers providing services in home care, group

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COVID-19

Checking In On The COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

  • January 11, 2021

So far, tens of thousands of Connecticut residents have already received the COVID-19 vaccine. Yet nationally, vaccine rollout has been going slower than experts had hoped. This hour, we hear

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Conn. Front-Line Union Workers Detail Pandemic Challenges In New Book

  • January 4, 2021

Luz Morales was working as a certified nursing assistant at RegalCare at Waterbury, a nursing home, when she fell ill with COVID-19. At home, her 70-year-old mother, Nicia, looked in

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Labor-based coalition urges Lamont, lawmakers to tax wealthy to fund ‘people’s recovery’ from pandemic

  • January 4, 2021

A coalition of labor leaders, progressive legislators and other activists upped the pressure Monday on Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly to tax Connecticut’s wealthy to preserve vital services

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