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Featured Post

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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Candlelight Vigil for Long-Term Care ‘Bill of Rights’ – 12.22.20

  • December 22, 2020

Nursing home workers, group home workers and personal care attendants who provide home care services for the elderly and people with disabilities will unite in a candlelight vigil to demand

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Politics

1199 – Legislator Look up, Voter Registration & How To Vote From Home

  • November 2, 2020

Throughout June, July and August, 1199 members met with candidates running for office in November. Members identified issues that were important to them for various reasons, things like healthcare, protecting

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Nursing Homes

Workers at Providence nursing home return to their jobs after three-day strike.

  • October 5, 2020

The union representing about 100 nursing assistants, maintenance workers and other staff at Bannister Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Providence began a three-day strike on Friday over demands for

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Connecticut

Press Release – SEIU 1199 Union Statement on Discharge at Three Rivers in Norwich

  • September 16, 2020

We are extremely disappointed that the Department of Public Health was not able to step in earlier and do better to fix the problems observed at Three Rivers in Norwich.

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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Nursing Homes

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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COVID-19

September 4th is Home Care Day!

  • September 3, 2020

Good union home care jobs must be at the center of fixing our nation’s overstretched and underfunded long-term care system and addressing the systemic racism and sexism that devalues essential

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections

  • September 3, 2020

When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told her children her last wishes. She did not know that

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COVID-19

‘We were used’: Hundreds of nursing home workers are laid off as financial crisis hits the facilities

  • August 31, 2020

Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide Gloria Duquette pushed aside her fear and continued showing up

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