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Strike notices due this Friday for six group home agencies in Connecticut were withdrawn and reset with a new strike deadline of June 4th at 6:00 AM in hopes of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

Moral Budget Requires Funding State Services to Meet Growing Need of CT Residents

  • April 1, 2021

The State of Connecticut must provide adequate funding for public services to save lives. The COVID-19 pandemic and its side effects have magnified the importance of building a robust structure

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Connecticut

Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: ‘When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back’

  • March 28, 2021

I’m not an old person. I’m 48 years old. But there are days when I get up and I just can’t move. My joints are so stiff. All because 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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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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Long-term Care Workers Rally For A Pay Increase, Bill of Rights

  • December 24, 2020

HARTFORD, CT –  Health care workers kept a safe distance from each other as they gathered on the north steps of the state Capitol Tuesday night to call on lawmakers

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Connecticut

Book Release Ceremony: “Care Under COVID”

  • December 14, 2020

Frontline long-term caregivers look back at the early days of the pandemic The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199NE, SEIU, and the Union’s Training and Upgrade Fund are

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