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Community Programs (CT)

Union Strike Ends with Two-Year Contracts, but Struggle to End Poverty Continues

  • June 15, 2023

Group home and day program members of the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, agreed to new contracts at six agencies in recent days, ending a weekslong strike

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Featured Post

OP-ED | Home Care Workers Call For Higher Pay, Benefits

  • August 2, 2021

“As a union home care worker, I feel that our pain must be heard, our struggles understood, and that those in leadership must take all actions necessary to make sure

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Featured Post

Union Gets Icare Contract with $20/hr Minimum for CNAs and $30/hr Minimum for LPNs

  • May 13, 2021

Union nursing home workers at Icare facilities agreed to a new contract that sets a historic $20 per hour minimum wage for certified nursing assistants and $30 per hour for

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Governor’s Nursing Home Proposal Fails to Address Poverty Wages and Staffing

  • May 11, 2021

Governor Ned Lamont’s economic proposal in a recent letter to the Union from OPM Secretary Melissa McCaw clearly falls short of the allocation of resources necessary to both lift nursing

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Long Term Care

Additional Nursing Home Strike Notices Sent for Six Facilities Starting May 28

  • May 10, 2021

More than 600 workers at six nursing homes in Connecticut will join the strike line on May 28 at 6:00 AM. The six nursing homes that received strike notifications today

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Connecticut

Book Release Ceremony: “Care Under COVID”

  • December 14, 2020

Frontline long-term caregivers look back at the early days of the pandemic The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199NE, SEIU, and the Union’s Training and Upgrade Fund are

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Home Care

Grateful for work of home health aides

  • September 4, 2020

Last year, I came up from Florida to visit my 85-year-old mother in Middletown and decided it was time to stay. Mom had several strokes a number of years ago.

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers say they’re still not getting enough PPE

  • May 14, 2020

Nursing home workers lined the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday, demanding PPE. They say their companies are not providing enough of it and want the state to step in.

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COVID-19

Martin Luther King Jr. Predicted This Moment

  • April 29, 2020

Fifty-two years ago, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously asserted the dignity of all work, he seemed to foresee this moment when it would become so clear

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Connecticut

COVID-19 Continues To Hit Connecticut’s Nursing Home Population Hard

  • April 21, 2020

Listen to this morning’s edition of “Where We Live” on WNPR featuring #SEIU1199 President Rob Baril and Licensed Practical Nurse Rhoda Lawrence. #ProtectAllWorkers #CaregiversCount #GetUsPPE

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