State Employees
SEBAC Health Insurance Rate Increase FAQ
Below is an 2 page FAQ regarding SEBAC Health Insurance Rate Increases. Click here to download the PDF
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Community Programs (CT)
Mental Health Staff Settle New Union Contract at Gilead and Sound Community Services
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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Connecticut Nursing Home Workers to Join Day of Action, Launch National Campaign in Demand of Industrywide Reform with Pickets in Rocky Hill, Uncasville and West Haven
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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Health Care Frontline Staff to Rally at Capitol in Demand of Response and Action to District 1199’s Petition Letter Recently Delivered to Gov. Ned Lamont
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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Nursing Home Workers Protest Poverty Pay and Benefits as Third Year of Working Through Pandemic Looms
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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Connecticut Patients, Providers, Advocates to Detail Policy, Budget Priorities for State’s Mental Health Crisis to Gov. Lamont, Legislative Leaders
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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District 1199 New England Celebrates National Apprenticeship Week with Pilot Program Cohort in Nursing Aide Apprentice Partnership with Genesis HealthCare
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.
Community Programs (CT)
The Strike At Sunrise Ends
Tuesday, December 8th, 2021, the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, reached an Agreement for a new contract for group home and day program workers at Sunrise Northeast, Inc. This Agreement, once ratified by the membership, will end the members’ two month strike. Sunrise operates 28 group home and day programs serving
State Employees
Long-Term Care Workers Join SEBAC Press Conference for Fair Contracts with the State
Connecticut’s independent home care workers will join SEBAC state workers in demand of a fair contract that lifts long-term care workers out of poverty. SEIU District 1199’s union contract with the State of Connecticut covers some 10,000 independent home care personal care attendants serving 6,000 people across the state. Today is the Service Employees International Union Day of
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At ‘Recovery for All’ rally, workers call on governor to address inequality
Hundreds of immigrants, long-term health care workers, teachers and students from across the state surrounded the steps of the state Capitol Monday evening — a sea of red, green, blue and purple union shirts — chanting “Governor Lamont, do your job,” as a demand for the state to invest in workers and communities. The Tax