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Home Care Providers Arrested at Capitol as We Call on State to Provide Health Insurance, Living Wages, Paid Sick Days

  • February 17, 2022

Home care providers with SEIU 1199NE, supported by community and elected leaders including Reverend Josh Pawelek, shut down the intersection of Capitol Ave, Trinity St., Washington St., and Lafayette St.

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Community Programs (CT)

Frontline Workers Outraged as Sunrise Northeast Shuns Long-Standing Caregivers with Threat of Permanent Replacements

  • December 2, 2021

Striking workers rallied Thursday at Sunrise Northeast as the group home and day program provider continues to deny workers a fair contract after more than a month on strike, and

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Community Programs (CT)

Union Workers Rally at Sunrise Inc. in Hartford Marking End of First Month on Strike

  • November 11, 2021

On Thursday, November 11th, striking workers rallied at Sunrise Inc. in Hartford to mark the end of the first month of the strike in demand of livable wages, affordable health

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Home Care

Halloween Horror Stories at the Governor’s Mansion with Home Care Workers and Allies

  • October 28, 2021

This Halloween PCAs want to let the neighborhood know that it’s scary how the State of Connecticut tricks and treats home care services! Home care workers, also known as personal

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Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits

  • September 24, 2021

At 65-years-old, Karlene Whonder works 55 hours a week as a home care worker in order to make sure she and her husband can afford medication for their health issues.

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Home Care

PCAs Tell Governor Ned Lamont: “The Future of Home Care is in Your Hands”

  • September 24, 2021

Connecticut’s independent home care PCAs participated in a demonstration Thursday, September 23, at 210 Capitol Ave. at 4:00 PM. Workers, who are majority Black, Latina, and working-class women making $16.25

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Long-Term Care Workers Unite in Civil Disobedience Demanding Fair Wages for PCAs

  • August 3, 2021

Connecticut’s independent home care personal care attendants (PCAs) rallied at the Governor’s Residence in Hartford on Tuesday to demand a fair contract from Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration. A group of

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State Employees

State Healthcare Workers and Legislators Demand Halt to Downsizing of Public Safety Net

  • May 24, 2021

Legislators, Recovery For All Connecticut coalition, frontline doctors, nurses, mental health staff, social workers, and other state healthcare workers will rally alongside service recipients and community allies Monday to demand

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Peaceful Civil Disobedience in Hartford to Demand Funding for Long-Term Care

  • April 9, 2021

Union long-term care workers and leaders were detained for acts of peaceful civil disobedience Thursday in Hartford in demand that the state provide funding to pay for structural changes that

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State Healthcare Workers March for a Moral Budget to Expand Services

  • April 7, 2021

Over 200 state healthcare workers, community partners and elected officials marched in Hartford to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and to demand the expansion of

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