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The State of Connecticut must provide adequate funding for public services to save lives. The COVID-19 pandemic and its side … Continue reading Moral Budget Requires Funding State Services to Meet Growing Need of CT Residents
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One hundred and forty days have passed since Denitra Pearson lost her job caring for the elderly in their homes. … Continue reading ‘CT’s Uneven Recovery’ – Poor people are still suffering from economic downturn brought by COVID
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Grace Davis was born during the Spanish flu and outlived two husbands. At 101 years old, she was still going … Continue reading The clouds are starting to open:’ Residents and staff remember hardship, contemplate future one year after COVID hit Connecticut’s nursing homes
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Luz Morales was working as a certified nursing assistant at RegalCare at Waterbury, a nursing home, when she fell ill … Continue reading Conn. Front-Line Union Workers Detail Pandemic Challenges In New Book
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A coalition of labor leaders, progressive legislators and other activists upped the pressure Monday on Gov. Ned Lamont and the … Continue reading Labor-based coalition urges Lamont, lawmakers to tax wealthy to fund ‘people’s recovery’ from pandemic
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HARTFORD, CT – Health care workers kept a safe distance from each other as they gathered on the north steps … Continue reading Long-term Care Workers Rally For A Pay Increase, Bill of Rights
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We were all a little lonelier this Thanksgiving as COVID-19 means that visiting with friends and relatives is risky business. … Continue reading ‘Personal caregivers do noble work — and are not adequately compensated’ – an OP-ED from the CT Mirror
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We are extremely disappointed that the Department of Public Health was not able to step in earlier and do better … Continue reading Press Release – SEIU 1199 Union Statement on Discharge at Three Rivers in Norwich
Last year, I came up from Florida to visit my 85-year-old mother in Middletown and decided it was time to … Continue reading Grateful for work of home health aides
Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide … Continue reading ‘We were used’: Hundreds of nursing home workers are laid off as financial crisis hits the facilities
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