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Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits

  • September 24, 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.

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Home Care

PCAs Tell Governor Ned Lamont: “The Future of Home Care is in Your Hands”

  • September 24, 2021

Connecticut’s independent home care PCAs participated in a demonstration Thursday, September 23, at 210 Capitol Ave. at 4:00 PM. Workers, who are majority Black, Latina, and working-class women making $16.25

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Community Programs (CT)

Union Workers Deliver Strike Notice at Two Group Home Agencies

  • September 21, 2021

The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, delivered strike notices at group home agencies Whole Life and Network with a deadline to begin striking on October 5th

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State Employees

State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

  • May 24, 2021

Legislators, Recovery For All Connecticut coalition, frontline doctors, nurses, mental health staff, social workers, and other state healthcare workers will rally alongside service recipients and community allies Monday to demand

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Connecticut

A People’s Economic Recovery – October 20th, 2020

  • October 20, 2020

Join us today in Hartford at Shiloh Baptist Church for a press conference and rally to demand a People’s Budget. A budget that prioritizes the needs of those most vulnerable

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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Nursing Homes

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections

  • September 3, 2020

When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told her children her last wishes. She did not know that

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COVID-19

‘We were used’: Hundreds of nursing home workers are laid off as financial crisis hits the facilities

  • August 31, 2020

Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide Gloria Duquette pushed aside her fear and continued showing up

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COVID-19

Family of Norwich Nursing Home Residents Raise Concerns; DPH Investigation Into Outbreak Continues

  • August 27, 2020

The Department of Public Health continues to investigate a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Norwich. According to DPH, as of last Thursday 13 residents and two staff members

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