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COVID-19

Home Care – August 2020 Newsletter

  • July 31, 2020

Union Home Care Workers Win 7.5% Increase in Hazard Pay All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract with Connecticut’s Department of Social Services and Department of Developmental

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COVID-19

Broad testing of nursing home staff is considered crucial in stopping COVID. But who will pay for it?

  • July 30, 2020

For months, Lurlette Newell avoided hugs from her grandchildren, a heartbreaking ordeal for a woman who loves to show affection. But Newell, a certified nursing assistant at the Westside Care

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Home Care

Union Home Care Workers Win 7.5% Increase in Hazard Pay

  • July 29, 2020

All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract with Connecticut’s Department of Social Services and Department of Developmental Services will receive a lump sum of hazard pay in

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Connecticut

State Unions Coalition Lauds Gov. Lamont’s Action to Protect Frontline Essential Workers

  • July 28, 2020

HARTFORD – The State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) today issued the following statement on Governor Ned Lamont’s executive order providing workers who contracted COVID-19 on the job with presumed

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COVID-19

Nursing home administrators offer mixed answers for COVID outbreaks, deaths

  • July 22, 2020

In a virtual hearing Tuesday, nursing home operators were grilled about why so many patients died of COVID-19. Nursing home operators said outbreaks were unavoidable. “The bad actor is the

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Front Feature

1199 Endorses Candidates Cabrera, Moore, McGee, Gibson, Farrar and Bello

  • July 21, 2020

Progressive contenders in November election pledge support for workers and quality care   1199 Endorses Jorge Cabrera for State Senate District 17 As a union representative and organizer for the

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COVID-19

Gov. Ned Lamont will issue order making it easier for essential workers who contract COVID-19 to collect workers’ compensation

  • July 20, 2020

HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont said Friday he will soon issue an executive order that will make it easier for frontline workers who contract COVID-19 to qualify for workers’ compensation

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Connecticut

Support the Long-Term Care Workers’ Bill of Rights

  • July 10, 2020

Long-term caregivers keep fighting on the front lines to protect Connecticut’s most vulnerable populations. Nursing home workers, home care workers, group home workers and other caregivers in nontraditional settings have

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Home Care

“Home care workers like me deserve a wage that provides dignity and respect”

  • July 1, 2020

For me, July 1 is my “a little more Independence Day.” I’m getting a raise from $15.85 to $16.25 an hour, along with 10,000 personal care attendants like me who with our

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COVID-19

Pandemic Creates New Challenges For Disabled

  • June 29, 2020

Picture being developmentally disabled, out of work, and trying to navigate the labyrinth of obtaining unemployment benefits that has frustrated thousands of people with no disabilities. Or imagine trying to

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