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Greenwich is home to the four most expensive zip codes in Connecticut. Ned Lamont’s mansion is in one of them. This holiday season home care workers, mostly Black, Brown and white working-class women from some of the poorest zip codes in Bridgeport, New Haven, Meriden and Hartford, are visiting the governor to call on the
Community Programs (CT)
On Tuesday, December 8, 2021, the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, reached an Agreement for a new contract for group home and day program workers at Sunrise Northeast, Inc. This Agreement, once ratified by the membership, will end the members’ two month strike. Sunrise operates 28 group home and day programs
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Striking workers rallied Thursday at Sunrise Northeast as the group home and day program provider continues to deny workers a fair contract after more than a month on strike, and now the Florida agency has threatened caregivers with permanent replacements due to their union activities. Direct support caregivers began striking on October 12 after Sunrise
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On Tuesday, November 16 at 1:00 PM, District 1199 New England celebrated National Apprenticeship Week at St. Joseph’s Center nursing home in Trumbull with the State of Connecticut Department of Labor Interim Commissioner and Chair of the State of Connecticut Apprenticeship Council Danté Bartolomeo, Genesis HealthCare administrators, and the state’s first cohort of CNA apprentices.
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On Thursday, November 11th, striking workers rallied at Sunrise Inc. in Hartford to mark the end of the first month of the strike in demand of livable wages, affordable health care and a pension for group home and day program caregivers. Union workers consolidated all strike lines in Hartford to be joined by community partners
Home Care
This Halloween PCAs want to let the neighborhood know that it’s scary how the State of Connecticut tricks and treats home care services! Home care workers, also known as personal care attendants (PCAs), are paid poverty wages by the state to care for some of Connecticut’s most vulnerable citizens so they can live independently at
Community Programs (CT)
Tuesday, December 8th, 2021, the New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, reached an Agreement for a new contract for group home and day program workers at Sunrise Northeast, Inc. This Agreement, once ratified by the membership, will end the members’ two month strike. Sunrise operates 28 group home and day programs serving
Home Care
Jordan DeAngelo tested positive for COVID-19 on Sept. 23, one week before paid time off for pandemic-related illnesses for personal care assistants, known as home care workers, ran out. Since Sept. 30, DeAngelo and thousands of other PCAs represented by the New England Health Care Employees Union who care for medically fragile adults in their
Community Programs (CT)
The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, settled on a new contract for group home and day program workers at Whole Life Inc., pending member ratification. Upon the new agreement with Whole Life, the Union canceled the strike notification that was set for Oct. 5. Whole Life Inc., operating over 39 locations
Community Programs (CT)
The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, settled on a new contract for group home and day program workers at Network Inc. on Wednesday, cancelling the October 5th strike notification of 300-plus union members at the agency. Network Inc. is the first community programs agency (group home and day program providers) to