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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. next to the Capitol building this afternoon to demand Governor Lamont allocate funding for livable wages and basic benefits such as health insurance and paid

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 now the Florida agency has threatened caregivers with permanent replacements due to their union activities. Direct support caregivers began striking on October 12 after Sunrise

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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 care and a pension for group home and day program caregivers. Union workers consolidated all strike lines in Hartford to be joined by community partners

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 care attendants (PCAs), are paid poverty wages by the state to care for some of Connecticut’s most vulnerable citizens so they can live independently at

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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. Robin David and Terrell Williams, both home care workers, are often pressed between working enough hours to make ends meet but not working so many

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 per hour, are demanding livable wages, paid time off, health insurance, job security and a path to retirement from Governor Ned Lamont’s Administration. PCAs currently

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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 participants engaged in peaceful civil disobedience at the gates of the residence with 15 trespassing tickets issued by the Hartford Police Department. “If Connecticut cares

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 that the state fills nearly 1,500 healthcare vacancies in critical areas of our public safety net. Development and mental health services from the Department of

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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 will let workers have a living wage, benefits and the capacity to retire with dignity. Rally participants picketed in front of 410 Capitol Avenue with

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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 state services to meet the growing need of residents and communities all across Connecticut. Workers engaged in a “March for a Moral Budget” down Capitol

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

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

Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits

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

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

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

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

State Healthcare Workers March for a Moral Budget to Expand Services

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