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Strikes possible at more than 50 CT nursing homes this spring

  • April 15, 2021

Still reeling financially from the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s nursing home industry could face strikes at more than 50 facilities this spring, an industry leader and a key state health official

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Connecticut

Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: ‘When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back’

  • March 28, 2021

I’m not an old person. I’m 48 years old. But there are days when I get up and I just can’t move. My joints are so stiff. All because 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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Press Releases

Press Release: Union Holds Informational Picket at Apple Rehab Rocky Hill for Unfair Labor Practices

  • October 6, 2020

Nursing home remains under investigation by the National Labor Relations Board Nursing home workers on the front lines at Apple Rehab in Rocky Hill formed a union informational picket line

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Nursing Homes

Workers at Providence nursing home return to their jobs after three-day strike.

  • October 5, 2020

The union representing about 100 nursing assistants, maintenance workers and other staff at Bannister Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Providence began a three-day strike on Friday over demands for

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Connecticut

Press Release – SEIU 1199 Union Statement on Discharge at Three Rivers in Norwich

  • September 16, 2020

We are extremely disappointed that the Department of Public Health was not able to step in earlier and do better to fix the problems observed at Three Rivers in Norwich.

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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Nursing Homes

All patients removed after Norwich nursing home COVID outbreak

  • September 16, 2020

NORWICH — The state Department of Public Health announced Wednesday it has ordered all patients to be removed from the Three Rivers Healthcare nursing home following an investigation into a

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COVID-19

Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections

  • September 3, 2020

When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told her children her last wishes. She did not know that

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