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Long-term care workers rallied outside the Legislative Office Building in demand of a $25/hr minimum wage for group home, home care and nursing home workers, affordable health insurance, paid time off and pension funding. This will require an additional $390 million in Medicaid funding for this budget to care for the elderly and individuals with
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“We thank Governor Ned Lamont and his team for extending the Premium Assistance enrollment through April 7th. Union estimates show that 1,500 to 2,000 home care providers could benefit from the Premium Assistance stipend, which allows a worker up to $1,950 per year for insurance premiums,” said Rob Baril, President of SEIU 1199 New England.
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On Wednesday, March 1st, in the Legislative Office Building, home care providers, Union leaders, and community partners rally and engage in civil disobedience to denounce the State of Connecticut’s failure to deliver on the health insurance stipend benefit won in our PCA Union contract. Over 1,500 of the state’s 11,000 independent waiver personal care attendants
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Long-term care workers – including group home workers, home care providers, and nursing home workers – held a press conference on Tuesday, February 7th in Hearing Room 1C of the Legislative Office Building. Workers demand “$25 for 2025”, and other protections that will lift Connecticut’s frontline caregivers out of poverty and improve services. In anticipation
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In anticipation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s upcoming holiday commemorations, Connecticut home care workers honor his legacy with a candlelight vigil at the State Capitol today. Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) and allies continue fighting for Dr. King’s vision to ensure that all working people — Black, Latina, APII, white or Native American — can
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SEIU 1199NE recibió información de que los Centros de Servicios de Medicare y Medicaid (CMS) aprobaron los fondos federales necesarios para el contracto de Asistentes Domésticos Personales (PCA) en Connecticut. Esta aprobación permitirá, por primera vez, que las personas que trabajan de PCA puedan recibir un estipendio para suplementar los gastos de seguro médico. Actualmente,
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SEIU 1199NE has learned that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved federal funding for the home care Personal Care Attendant (PCA) contract in Connecticut. This approval marks the first time that PCAs will have access to a stipend to offset the cost of purchasing health insurance, which thousands of PCAs do not
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Thousands of home care workers are pleading for the State of Connecticut to fund their health insurance stipend and paid time off benefits, after learning that the state’s initial application for matching federal dollars was denied. State administrators from the Department of Social Services informed the Union that the federal funding application to the Centers
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Union home care workers presented the newly ratified 1199 Personal Care Attendants contract with the State of Connecticut on Wednesday, including wage increases up to $18.25 per hour in January, supplementary health insurance funding, a 6% retroactive lump sum bonus for all hours worked from April 2021 through March 2022, and paid time off. The
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1199NE SEIU members and leaders announced Friday a step forward in their campaign to transform Connecticut’s state-funded home care jobs into good jobs. Governor Lamont sat down with 1199NE leaders Wednesday to discuss actions the state can take to ensure healthcare providers across Connecticut have jobs that support their families, increase funding to provide affordable