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Connecticut

CT State Workers Keep Essential Services in Operation Through COVID-19 Crisis

  • May 6, 2020

Connecticut state essential workers from Southbury Training School, the Department of Correction, Connecticut Valley Hospital and other agencies will share their stories from the front lines of novel coronavirus. “Three

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Connecticut

PPE For Nursing Homes During Coronavirus Outbreak

  • May 5, 2020
Connecticut

‘Don’t tell me I killed my mom’: Nursing home CNA says she contracted coronavirus at work, passed it along to her mother who died

  • May 1, 2020

WINDSOR, Conn. (WTNH) — A nursing home worker says she believes she caught coronavirus at work and passed it along to her mother who later died of the virus. Certified

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COVID-19

Fox 61 – Corrections employees put on rolling rally to protest Covid-19 conditions at work

  • April 24, 2020

Car horns blared outside the headquarters of the Department of Corrections in Wethersfield where employees who work the prison system held a “Public Safety Caravan”. About 30 cars adorned with

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Connecticut

Fear Grips Health Workers Caring For The Elderly

  • April 22, 2020

For the past month or so, Leikish Nails has engaged in an elaborate ritual the minute she gets home from her shift at Touchpoints at Manchester, a skilled nursing facility

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COVID-19

Nursing Home Workers Concerned About PPE Supplies

  • April 21, 2020

About half the nursing homes in the state – 108 – have had at least one case of COVID-19 and it has left workers feeling scared and not prepared. Outside

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Connecticut

We need to #ProtectAllWorkers!

  • April 8, 2020

#ProtectAllWorkers #CaregiversCount Caregivers and all essential workers deserve #dignity and #respect. That includes having access to effective Personal Protective Equipment in times of COVID-19. Our doctors, nurses, nursing assistants and other essential staff members

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Connecticut

Gov. Lamont announces 90-Day grace period for mortgage payments

  • April 1, 2020

#ProtectAllWorkers Effective March 31, 2020, Gov. Lamont announced that Connecticut residents economically impacted by COVID-19 may receive 90-day grace periods to make mortgage payments, while financial institutions agree not to

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Featured Post

A Union-made Solution to the PPE Shortage

  • March 31, 2020

Below is a UConn Health Labor Coalition report made publicly available and open to news media citation, reproduction and distribution in full or in part.  For questions or contact info

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Home Care

Home Health Aides Seek Basic Protections

  • March 30, 2020

by Lisa Backus | Mar 30, 2020 11:30am If Lynda Frank gets sick while working as a home personal care aide, she’s caught between the threat of passing the illness to her

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