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COVID-19

Union Health Care Workers Petition To Remove DPH Official, Demand Better Protections

  • June 26, 2020

Wearing a mask and speaking through a megaphone, Jesse Martin prompted a crowd that had gathered outside the state Department of Public Health building in Hartford late Thursday afternoon. “What

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COVID-19

Lamont Allows Reduced Testing Of Nursing Home Workers, Cites Changing Federal Guidance

  • June 22, 2020

State officials have announced that they’re scaling back COVID-19 testing at nursing homes and assisted living facilities. It’s a policy shift that comes as a major union representing eldercare workers

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COVID-19

Desde Covid-19 hasta la Responsabilidad Policial, Queremos Respirar…

  • June 22, 2020

“Durante las últimas semanas hemos sido testigos una vez más de los asesinatos de personas afroamericanas de tal forma que nos recuerda los linchamientos de la era Jim Crow, previo

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COVID-19

Essential workers tell lawmakers they’re being denied workers compensation for COVID-19 because they can’t prove where they got the virus

  • June 19, 2020

As a shuttle bus driver at Yale New Haven Hospital, Denise Rogers constantly came in close contact with nurses and other health care workers as the coronavirus pandemic was spreading

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Nursing Homes

RI lawmakers push for better protection in nursing homes

  • June 18, 2020

Although the numbers are down in Rhode Island, there is an urge to better protect the state’s most vulnerable population in the wake of COVID-19. Nursing home residents are the

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COVID-19

Remembering Long-Term Care Workers & Clients Fighting COVID-19

  • June 18, 2020

Join us at Bushnell Park’s North Hill by the State Capitol as we remember and honor thousands of long-term care workers and residents/clients affected by COVID-19. Too many nursing home

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COVID-19

Union representing nursing homes workers says state failed to protect workers and their patients

  • June 17, 2020

The president of the local union that represents nursing home workers said the state has treated them as if they “were invisible” as the deaths mounted in facilities across the

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COVID-19

No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars

  • June 15, 2020

State residents may feel confined by social and work restrictions brought on by COVID-19, but for prisoners and workers in Connecticut’s jails the luxury of self-isolating at home doesn’t exist.

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COVID-19

The Future Of Work: Gender Disparities In The Workplace Worsen During The Pandemic

  • June 11, 2020

This is part of a series of shows from Where We Live about the future of work after the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has caused major disruptions for workers’ careers,

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COVID-19

No Tienes Que Llamarme Héroe

  • June 10, 2020

Los trabajadores estatales de Connecticut estamos arriesgando nuesrtas vidas en la línea de batalla contra el coronavirus. Mientras tanto, algunos políticos quieren quitarnos nuestro salario para “balancear el presupuesto”. Las

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