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Below are a few articles regarding the minimum wage increase happening in 2019! For Much Of New England, Minimum … Continue reading The Fight For $15 Continues!
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For the past couple of weeks, 1199 has been working with the Connecticut Mirror to follow up on staffing levels … Continue reading DENIED: A LOOK INTO INMATE HEALTH CARE
Connecticut
Here is an article from the CT Mirror regarding policy transition committees as they report their preliminary findings and recommendations. … Continue reading Public vs. private social services debate reaches the Lamont transition
Connecticut
I write to you today, my union brothers and sisters, to announce my retirement as President of SEIU 1199 New … Continue reading District 1199 President David Pickus To Retire at End of the Year
Connecticut
A total of 58 CNAs at Glendale Center, a 120-bed Genesis Healthcare facility in Naugatuck, CT joined 1199 by a … Continue reading Welcome To 1199, Glendale Center!!
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Service Employees International President Mary Kay Henry released the following statement on this weekend’s shooting at a … Continue reading SEIU’s Henry: Hatred, anti-semitism have no place anywhere in America
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We’re ready for November 6th. Are you? We need to stick together and vote together. Our message to politicians: You … Continue reading Voting Gives You Power!
Connecticut
Waterbury, CT – Dozens of picketing caregivers denounced illegal changes in compensation and benefits, and severe cuts in residential services … Continue reading Nursing Staff Pickets Against Priority Healthcare Group’s Cuts
Connecticut
HARTFORD, CT — The state’s largest union of health care workers, the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, … Continue reading District 1199 Endorses Ned Lamont for Governor, Eva Bermudez Zimmerman for Lt. Governor, Shawn Wooden for Treasurer
Connecticut
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its anti-worker decision in the long-awaited Janus v. AFSCME. The Court ruled 5-4 in favor of … Continue reading No Court Ruling on Janus v. AFSCME will Rule Us Out!