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At 65-years-old, Karlene Whonder works 55 hours a week as a home care worker in order to make sure she … Continue reading Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits
Home Care
Connecticut’s independent home care PCAs participated in a demonstration Thursday, September 23, at 210 Capitol Ave. at 4:00 PM. Workers, … Continue reading PCAs Tell Governor Ned Lamont: “The Future of Home Care is in Your Hands”
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The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199, SEIU, delivered strike notices at group home agencies Whole Life and … Continue reading Union Workers Deliver Strike Notice at Two Group Home Agencies
State Employees
Legislators, Recovery For All Connecticut coalition, frontline doctors, nurses, mental health staff, social workers, and other state healthcare workers will … Continue reading State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net
Connecticut
Join us today in Hartford at Shiloh Baptist Church for a press conference and rally to demand a People’s Budget. … Continue reading A People’s Economic Recovery – October 20th, 2020
NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the … Continue reading All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak
Nursing Homes
NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the … Continue reading All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak
COVID-19
When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told … Continue reading Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections
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
The Department of Public Health continues to investigate a COVID-19 outbreak at a nursing home in Norwich. According to DPH, … Continue reading Family of Norwich Nursing Home Residents Raise Concerns; DPH Investigation Into Outbreak Continues