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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
Nursing Homes & Hospitals
Monday, March 20th at Autumn Lake at New Britain, nursing home workers, residents, administrators and elected officials, including U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, came together in a “Staff-In Day” to advocate for federal and state policy advancements in direct care staffing, resources and Medicaid funding. “I am very proud of the work we do. It’s hard
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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
Nursing Homes
Watch as Adelina Ramos, a Certified Nursing Assistant testifies before the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis to the challenges that the coronavirus pandemic has posed to nursing home residents and staff and what measures can be adopted to ensure nursing homes are better equipped to protect residents and staff in the future.
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On Saturday, September 17th SEIU 1199NE nursing home caregivers gathered for a press conference at Hamden High School, to raise awareness on the critically short-staffed nursing home conditions, followed by a day of canvassing in Hamden, because long-term care funding and high-quality standards are established by the people we elect to office. “Certified nursing assistants are
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On Wednesday, June 8, at 2:30 PM, SEIU 1199NE union caregivers are set to join a nationwide day of action in more than a dozen states by lifting their local demands as nursing home staff members and going national with their campaign. Nursing home workers have identified common issues nationally and are organizing around demands including safe
Nursing Homes & Hospitals
“Nursing home caregivers have sacrificed everything during the coronavirus pandemic, including paying with their own lives and the lives of their relatives. Surviving union caregivers are not surprised to see that the number of dead nursing home workers from COVID-related complications is much higher than previously reported by the Department of Public Health. We expect
Nursing Homes & Hospitals
On Tuesday, May 10th, union nursing home workers held a strike line rally at Windsor Health and Rehab Center. Caregivers at Windsor Health and Rehab Center are in their third week of strike, which began on April 22. Administrators have failed to present any proposal that would provide affordable health insurance for some of the poorest
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Union health care workers from the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, held a rally at the Capitol in demand of an official response and corresponding action to the Union’s petition letter regarding adjustments to the state’s budget. Budget adjustments are needed now to ensure that the new union contracts establishing livable wages,
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Union health care workers from the New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE, held an info picket at the Capitol and then hand deliver a petition letter from our rank-and file executive board members to Gov. Ned Lamont’s office. What: Info picket and delivery of petition letter to fund long-term care service so that