Connecticut
WNPR published a story regarding the various issues in Nursing Homes regarding staffing. “It isn’t often that DPH mandates staffing or requires nursing homes to hire consultants, but the order reflects a broader emerging problem affecting the care provided at many nursing homes: insufficient staffing levels and caregivers who lack training.” Read the full article
Connecticut
For the past couple of weeks, 1199 has been working with the Connecticut Mirror to follow up on staffing levels and quality of services at the Department of Correction. On December 20th, The Mirror reported extensively in a Special Report on the failures of DOC to establish proper care for inmates, six months after DOC
Connecticut
Here is an article from the CT Mirror regarding policy transition committees as they report their preliminary findings and recommendations. “Schwartz noted that more than 2,000 developmentally disabled citizens are “mired” on controversial state waiting lists for those in need of residential placements…That waiting list is approximately one-third longer than it was about 15 years
Connecticut
I write to you today, my union brothers and sisters, to announce my retirement as President of SEIU 1199 New England effective December 31, 2018. I have served over 40 years at 1199 – that’s 44 and a half years to be exact – and it has been a tremendous privilege to be involved in
Connecticut
Multiple lawsuits allege Connecticut’s prison system failed to properly diagnose and treat prisoners with serious illnesses. What steps have been taken to improve health care behind bars? Listen to the discussion via podcast (49:23) here from WNPR.
Community Programs (CT)
1199ers fought very hard to win our first increase for wages from DDS in over ten years. Now Mosaic management is claiming they “don’t have any information” in order to negotiate. On October 18th, the State told all the agencies it was committed to funding our raises. We went to the office on November 20th
Connecticut
A total of 58 CNAs at Glendale Center, a 120-bed Genesis Healthcare facility in Naugatuck, CT joined 1199 by a vote of 44-10 this past Friday. Glendale workers followed Glen Hill CNAs (Danbury, CT) and Fox Hill CNAs (Vernon, CT) in joining 1199 this year. Genesis health workers are now 14 homes and 1500 workers
Rhode Island
SEIU District 1199 New England is soliciting information to gauge the interest and cost associated with contracting with an entity to administer and maintain a substitute pool to be accessed by family child care providers under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with the State of Rhode Island to coordinate the usage of approved
Uncategorized
Now it’s up to the newly elected governors to fight for the overworked and underpaid constituents who voted them into office. In the Midwest, the midterm elections came down to voters like Precious Crawley. Crawley works two jobs in Milwaukee—one as a McDonald’s cashier for $7.50—and struggles to provide for her three children and pay
Politics (CT)
Your hard work and dedication proved to be essential for our success in the highly contested 2018 midterm elections. Connecticut will be a better place now that progressive candidates have been secured for office, at least for the next couple of years. Union members and their families all across the nation turned out to vote