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Below are links to articles featured in our 2023 Newsletter mailed in May: Building a Robust & Proactive Public Health System in Connecticut – A Symposium Click HERE to watch the Symposium on Youtube! OP-ED: “Donna Brooks: Connecticut lets down women in addiction recovery” Donna Brooks’ OP-ED from the Hartford Courant can be read HERE
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In anticipation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s upcoming holiday commemorations, Connecticut home care workers honor his legacy with a candlelight vigil at the State Capitol today. Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) and allies continue fighting for Dr. King’s vision to ensure that all working people — Black, Latina, APII, white or Native American — can
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On Saturday, September 17th SEIU 1199NE nursing home caregivers gathered for a press conference at Hamden High School, to raise awareness on the critically short-staffed nursing home conditions, followed by a day of canvassing in Hamden, because long-term care funding and high-quality standards are established by the people we elect to office. “Certified nursing assistants are
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Below is an 2 page FAQ regarding SEBAC Health Insurance Rate Increases. Click here to download the PDF
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Mental health staff at Gilead Community Services and Sound Community Services finalized a new union contract that includes wage increases of up to 20% and affordable health insurance for frontline caregivers. The new contracts, which also provide for additional employee wage increases according to longevity of service at the agency and designate Juneteenth as a
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On Wednesday, June 8, at 2:30 PM, SEIU 1199NE union caregivers are set to join a nationwide day of action in more than a dozen states by lifting their local demands as nursing home staff members and going national with their campaign. Nursing home workers have identified common issues nationally and are organizing around demands including safe
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Union health care workers from the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, held a rally at the Capitol in demand of an official response and corresponding action to the Union’s petition letter regarding adjustments to the state’s budget. Budget adjustments are needed now to ensure that the new union contracts establishing livable wages,
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SEIU 1199 New England members, who provide care to patients and keep St. Mary’s nursing home running, rallied outside the facility to bring attention to the crisis of low pay that makes it difficult to care for their families even as they care for others. St. Mary Home, which is operated by Trinity Health Senior
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Following a January mental health symposium with state legislators, a statewide coalition of mental health advocates will send Governor Lamont and Legislative leaders a roadmap for fully funding mental health and addiction services as the state grapples with a skyrocketing need for mental healthcare in the midst of the pandemic and plummeting staffing levels, creating
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On Tuesday, November 16 at 1:00 PM, District 1199 New England celebrated National Apprenticeship Week at St. Joseph’s Center nursing home in Trumbull with the State of Connecticut Department of Labor Interim Commissioner and Chair of the State of Connecticut Apprenticeship Council Danté Bartolomeo, Genesis HealthCare administrators, and the state’s first cohort of CNA apprentices.