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Home Care

Lawmakers Green-light Bill Over Personal Care Attendant Payroll

  • March 20, 2021

The Labor and Public Employees Committee voted Thursday to advance a bill that would fine companies that act as fiscal intermediaries that don’t pay workers promptly. SB 942 was prompted by

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Home Care

Home Care Workers Use Civil Disobedience to End Allied Payroll Nightmare

  • February 11, 2021

Personal care attendants and union staff members united in civil disobedience action Thursday in Enfield to take a stand against Allied Community Resources and its abusive treatment of home care

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Home Care

Allied Civil Disobedience Slideshow

  • February 11, 2021

Personal care attendants and union staff members united in civil disobedience action Thursday, February 11th in Enfield to take a stand against Allied Community Resources and its abusive treatment of

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Featured Post

Conn. Front-Line Union Workers Detail Pandemic Challenges In New Book

  • January 4, 2021

Luz Morales was working as a certified nursing assistant at RegalCare at Waterbury, a nursing home, when she fell ill with COVID-19. At home, her 70-year-old mother, Nicia, looked in

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Connecticut

Book Release Ceremony: “Care Under COVID”

  • December 14, 2020

Frontline long-term caregivers look back at the early days of the pandemic The New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199NE, SEIU, and the Union’s Training and Upgrade Fund are

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Home Care

‘Personal caregivers do noble work — and are not adequately compensated’ – an OP-ED from the CT Mirror

  • December 4, 2020

We were all a little lonelier this Thanksgiving as COVID-19 means that visiting with friends and relatives is risky business. With the stress of working and living with the threat

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Uncategorized

Important Home Care Information

  • November 12, 2020

As the Home Care providers Union, we are united around quality care for Consumers and quality jobs for caregivers.  Before and during this pandemic, PCAs and our Consumers have worked

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Home Care

State-Issued PPE Halted For Home Health Aides

  • September 4, 2020

As a disabled person who is bedridden when not in her wheelchair, Sharon Thorstenson depends on two personal care aides to see to her daily needs while keeping her safe

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Home Care

Grateful for work of home health aides

  • September 4, 2020

Last year, I came up from Florida to visit my 85-year-old mother in Middletown and decided it was time to stay. Mom had several strokes a number of years ago.

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COVID-19

State Halts PPE For Homecare Workers

  • September 4, 2020

The union that represents 10,000 home health care workers recently found out that the state will no longer be distributing PPE on a biweekly basis. That means regular shipment of

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