Community Programs (CT)
Group home and day program members of the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, agreed to new contracts … Continue reading Union Strike Ends with Two-Year Contracts, but Struggle to End Poverty Continues
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“As a union home care worker, I feel that our pain must be heard, our struggles understood, and that those … Continue reading OP-ED | Home Care Workers Call For Higher Pay, Benefits
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Union nursing home workers at Icare facilities agreed to a new contract that sets a historic $20 per hour minimum … Continue reading Union Gets Icare Contract with $20/hr Minimum for CNAs and $30/hr Minimum for LPNs
Nursing Homes & Hospitals
Governor Ned Lamont’s economic proposal in a recent letter to the Union from OPM Secretary Melissa McCaw clearly falls short … Continue reading Governor’s Nursing Home Proposal Fails to Address Poverty Wages and Staffing
Long Term Care
More than 600 workers at six nursing homes in Connecticut will join the strike line on May 28 at 6:00 … Continue reading Additional Nursing Home Strike Notices Sent for Six Facilities Starting May 28
Connecticut
Frontline long-term caregivers look back at the early days of the pandemic The New England Health Care Employees Union, District … Continue reading Book Release Ceremony: “Care Under COVID”
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
Nursing home workers lined the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, demanding PPE. They say their companies are not providing … Continue reading Nursing home workers say they’re still not getting enough PPE
Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously asserted the dignity of all work, he seemed … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment
Connecticut
Listen to this morning’s edition of “Where We Live” on WNPR featuring #SEIU1199 President Rob Baril and Licensed Practical Nurse Rhoda Lawrence. … Continue reading COVID-19 Continues To Hit Connecticut’s Nursing Home Population Hard