COVID-19

SEIU 1199NE President Rob Baril’s Statement on Updated Nursing Home COVID Fatality Data by DPH

May 19, 2022May 19, 2022

“Nursing home caregivers have sacrificed everything during the coronavirus pandemic, including paying with their own lives and the lives of their relatives. Surviving union caregivers are not surprised to see that the number of dead nursing home workers from COVID-related complications is much higher than previously reported by the Department of Public Health. We expect

Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Union Reaches Tentative Agreement at Windsor Health and Rehabilitation

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022

We are pleased to announce that SEIU 1199 NE Members along with Management at Windsor Health and Rehabilitation have reached a tentative agreement that provides competitive wages and benefits to frontline workers. With this agreement the strike was ended on Tuesday morning and 1199 Members, along with Management, will move forward in a cooperative manner

Home Care

Home Care Workers Win Paid Time Off and Health Insurance Funding for the First Time in Newly Ratified 1199 Union Contract

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022

Union home care workers presented the newly ratified 1199 Personal Care Attendants contract with the State of Connecticut on Wednesday, including wage increases up to $18.25 per hour in January, supplementary health insurance funding, a 6% retroactive lump sum bonus for all hours worked from April 2021 through March 2022, and paid time off. The

Connecticut

1199 New England Union Member to Participate in National Council for Occupational Safety and Health COVID-19 Briefing

October 27, 2021October 27, 2021

District 1199 New England union member and New Britain resident Anne Barden will be participating in a livestream media briefing by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) on Thursday, October 28 at 2 pm ET “about a pending workplace COVID-19 vaccine and testing standard, soon to be released by the U.S.

Home Care

Home Care Workers Lose Paid COVID Sick Time

October 13, 2021October 13, 2021

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

State Employees

Statement of SEBAC Leadership on Vaccine Mandate for Workers in State Hospitals and Long-term Care Facilities

September 23, 2021September 24, 2021

Healthcare, custodial and maintenance staff represented by unions in the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) are extremely concerned that the precarious staffing shortages that existed long before COVID-19 could be dangerously exacerbated by even a fractional reduction of this workforce if the COVID-19 vaccination requirement deadline set by Governor Ned Lamont’s Executive Order 13G

COVID-19

Statement on requirement for employees of long-term care facilities to receive COVID-19 vaccinations

August 9, 2021August 9, 2021

District 1199 New England is encouraging workers to get vaccinated against COVID since last December based on the advice and recommendation of experts. The vaccine is an essential tool to protect workers and the people we care for every day. The Union is working with employers and with the State of Connecticut to make sure

Connecticut

‘CT’s Uneven Recovery’ – Poor people are still suffering from economic downturn brought by COVID

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021

One hundred and forty days have passed since Denitra Pearson lost her job caring for the elderly in their homes. Forty-two days have passed since she, her husband, and children lost all their belongings after a fire engulfed their house on a snowy winter night. They’re now living in a hotel. Fast food and non-perishables

Connecticut

Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: ‘When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back’

March 28, 2021March 29, 2021

I’m not an old person. I’m 48 years old. But there are days when I get up and I just can’t move. My joints are so stiff. All because of COVID-19. I feel angry. I am among the forgotten casualties of this pandemic. A year ago, on March 23, I had to leave work because

Connecticut

The clouds are starting to open:’ Residents and staff remember hardship, contemplate future one year after COVID hit Connecticut’s nursing homes

March 22, 2021March 24, 2021

Grace Davis was born during the Spanish flu and outlived two husbands. At 101 years old, she was still going strong when COVID-19 began its lethal spread through Connecticut’s nursing homes. Then in May, she caught the disease. “At first my symptoms were like what the flu would have been,” she said in a Zoom

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SEIU 1199NE President Rob Baril’s Statement on Updated Nursing Home COVID Fatality Data by DPH

Union Reaches Tentative Agreement at Windsor Health and Rehabilitation

Home Care Workers Win Paid Time Off and Health Insurance Funding for the First Time in Newly Ratified 1199 Union Contract

1199 New England Union Member to Participate in National Council for Occupational Safety and Health COVID-19 Briefing

Home Care Workers Lose Paid COVID Sick Time

Statement of SEBAC Leadership on Vaccine Mandate for Workers in State Hospitals and Long-term Care Facilities

Statement on requirement for employees of long-term care facilities to receive COVID-19 vaccinations

‘CT’s Uneven Recovery’ – Poor people are still suffering from economic downturn brought by COVID

Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: ‘When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back’

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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