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Connecticut

Opinion: A CT worker has two full-time jobs. Patients, students, and workforce deserve better.

  • September 1, 2024

Hartford’s Yvonne Dimmett won’t be working this Labor Day. That is rare for Yvonne, who holds two full-time jobs, both demanding, care focused 40-hour positions. With overtime that often leads

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State Employees

OP-ED: “Donna Brooks: Connecticut lets down women in addiction recovery”

  • March 6, 2023

Written by Donna Brooks for the Hartford Courant Link to the Digital Courant Article here Link to the PDF of the published article here Connecticut had one in-patient unit available

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Home Care

‘Robin David: Connecticut’s home care workers need better wages and benefits’ Hartford Courant: OP-ED

  • March 31, 2022

Some nights I drive along Route 8 in Naugatuck close to midnight, headed to my client’s house. My job is to help Mr. West, who is elderly, live at home

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Connecticut

Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: ‘When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back’

  • March 28, 2021

I’m not an old person. I’m 48 years old. But there are days when I get up and I just can’t move. My joints are so stiff. All because of

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

One dead in COVID-19 outbreak at Norwich nursing home; state says at least 15 people infected

  • August 21, 2020

The state Department of Public health is investigating a coronavirus outbreak at a Norwich nursing home, where at least one resident has died and several are hospitalized after a supervisor

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COVID-19

Gov. Ned Lamont will issue order making it easier for essential workers who contract COVID-19 to collect workers’ compensation

  • July 20, 2020

HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont said Friday he will soon issue an executive order that will make it easier for frontline workers who contract COVID-19 to qualify for workers’ compensation

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Home Care

“Home care workers like me deserve a wage that provides dignity and respect”

  • July 1, 2020

For me, July 1 is my “a little more Independence Day.” I’m getting a raise from $15.85 to $16.25 an hour, along with 10,000 personal care attendants like me who with our

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Connecticut

Thousands gather at state Capitol on Juneteenth; protesters confront Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin over defunding police

  • June 19, 2020

 Thousands of racial justice protesters marched through Hartford on Friday, rallying at the Capitol and later confronting Mayor Luke Bronin outside his home over the issue of police funding. On

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COVID-19

Union representing nursing homes workers says state failed to protect workers and their patients

  • June 17, 2020

The president of the local union that represents nursing home workers said the state has treated them as if they “were invisible” as the deaths mounted in facilities across the

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Connecticut

Even with expanding COVID-19 testing, DOC employees describe ‘a perfect storm’ within Connecticut prisons and jails

  • May 23, 2020

Even as the state Department of Correction significantly expands COVID-19 testing of incarcerated people, agency employees say that deep concerns persist about adequate social distancing and medical staffing in Connecticut

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