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Expand Services To Save Lives: Building a Robust & Proactive Public Health System in Connecticut

January 24, 2023February 16, 2023

Connecticut’s public health safety net is crumbling. Every day, people seeking medical attention, mental health support, and addiction recovery services are turned away from receiving the care they need. Hundreds of frontline healthcare jobs at public state facilities remain vacant. The combination of direct care staffing shortages and lack of resources to navigate the system

Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits

September 24, 2021September 27, 2021

At 65-years-old, Karlene Whonder works 55 hours a week as a home care worker in order to make sure she and her husband can afford medication for their health issues. Robin David and Terrell Williams, both home care workers, are often pressed between working enough hours to make ends meet but not working so many

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Home Care Workers Want Fair Pay, But Can’t Strike

June 21, 2021June 22, 2021

More than 10,000 home care workers represented by the New England Health Care Workers Union, SEIU District 1199 are waiting for negotiations to resume this week with the state for increased pay, health care and a path to retirement. Negotiations with the state have gone nowhere, according to Diedre Murch, home care director and vice

Home Care

Moms Are Caregivers : OP-ED from CT News Junkie

May 9, 2021May 24, 2021

This Mother’s Day, my hope is that all mothers, but especially those of us who are caregivers to children with special needs, will gain the ability to care for our own health with affordable health care. I have been personally caring for my son, Yehoshua, at home for the past 10 years. He was born

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OP-ED from CT News Junkie – I AM A MAN

April 4, 2021April 5, 2021

Sunday, April 4th, we will observe Easter, a Christian tradition celebrating the defeat of death and the hope for redemption. But April 4th is also the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis. I was there then, in Memphis, a young girl in 1968, when it seemed

Long-term Care Workers Rally For A Pay Increase, Bill of Rights

December 24, 2020December 24, 2020

HARTFORD, CT – Health care workers kept a safe distance from each other as they gathered on the north steps of the state Capitol Tuesday night to call on lawmakers to increase their pay and their rights in the workplace. “Nine months of sacrifice. Nine months of suffering. Nine months of fear. Nine months of

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 make your way in a wheelchair down a city sidewalk where shops and restaurants are now taking up former pedestrian space with curbside pickup and

COVID-19

No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars

June 15, 2020February 18, 2021

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. The idea of “loosening up” and finding the “new normal” in our prisons is a long way off. We’re still “popping positives” for COVID-19 while

COVID-19

Black and Puerto Rican Caucus Focuses on Nursing Home Workers

May 28, 2020

Members of the legislature’s Black and Puerto Rican Caucus traveled the state Monday visiting nursing homes from Stamford to Hartford to let the workers know they have their backs. Sen. Marilyn Moore, D-Bridgeport, said they want to make sure the workers, who are largely black and brown, know their lawmakers are looking out for them

COVID-19

Unease Increases Among Inmates, DOC Employees

May 26, 2020

Inmates in the state prison system are becoming increasingly aggressive toward staff due to the way the coronavirus pandemic is being handled, according to union officials and prison employees. There’s also a shortage of healthcare staff to deal with the increasing number of inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19, workers said, adding that the

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Expand Services To Save Lives: Building a Robust & Proactive Public Health System in Connecticut

Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits

Home Care Workers Want Fair Pay, But Can’t Strike

Moms Are Caregivers : OP-ED from CT News Junkie

OP-ED from CT News Junkie – I AM A MAN

Long-term Care Workers Rally For A Pay Increase, Bill of Rights

No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars

Black and Puerto Rican Caucus Focuses on Nursing Home Workers

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