Media Advisory

Personal Care Attendants Engage in Civil Disobedience at the LOB to Denounce State’s Broken Promises on Health Insurance Stipend for Home Care Providers

March 1, 2023

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

Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Nursing Home Workers at Windsor Health and Rehab Center Prepare to Strike for Serious Labor Violations

April 21, 2022

Union nursing home workers held a press conference on Zoom in anticipation of the strike deadlines set for Friday at 6:00 AM at Windsor Health and Rehab Center, National Health Care Associates Centers, and Avery Heights. Windsor Health and Rehab Center is facing an imminent strike Friday morning, having failed to provide any proposal that

Community Programs

Mental Healthcare Providers at Sound Community Services to Engage on Information Picket Today with Strike Deadline Set for the Weekend

April 19, 2022

On Tuesday, April 19th from 3:45 to 5:15 PM, union mental health workers employed by Sound Community Services held an information picket in demand of increased wages, access to benefits, and improved staffing conditions that will allow them to provide quality care, while protecting themselves and their families. This information picket is in anticipation of

Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Stamford Nursing Home Workers Hold Action, Raise Demands for Higher Wages, Affordable Healthcare, Racial Justice Measures

March 17, 2022

1199NE SEIU members who care for residents at the Villa at Stamford for Premier Rehabilitation & Healthcare nursing home held an action today to raise awareness of their demands for wage increases, affordable health care, affordable retirement, and enforceable policies to address racial discrimination on the job and in the communities where they work. Today’s

Connecticut

1199 New England Union Member to Participate in National Council for Occupational Safety and Health COVID-19 Briefing

October 27, 2021

District 1199 New England union member and New Britain resident Anne Barden will be participating in a livestream media briefing by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH) on Thursday, October 28 at 2 pm ET “about a pending workplace COVID-19 vaccine and testing standard, soon to be released by the U.S.

State Employees

State Healthcare Workers Block Traffic in Middletown to Demand End to Staffing Crisis

May 6, 2021

Frontline doctors, nurses, mental health workers, social workers and other healthcare workers from Connecticut Valley Hospital, Whiting Forensic Hospital and Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center North and South will block traffic to demand that Governor Ned Lamont immediately fill 345 vacancies. Staffing shortages at these facilities of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

Connecticut

Long-Term Care Workers Stop Traffic in Fight Against Poverty Wages

March 10, 2021

More than 100 long-term care workers blocked traffic in Hartford at the Department of Social Services to draw attention to the treatment of caregivers providing services in home care, group homes and nursing homes. Workers gathered at the corner of Farmington Avenue and Flowers Street in demand of living wages and basic benefits like access

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