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Connecticut

Opinion: A CT worker has two full-time jobs. Patients, students, and workforce deserve better.

  • September 1, 2024

Hartford’s Yvonne Dimmett won’t be working this Labor Day. That is rare for Yvonne, who holds two full-time jobs, both demanding, care focused 40-hour positions. With overtime that often leads

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Long-Term Care Workers Rally at Legislative Office Building to End Poverty for Caregivers

  • April 19, 2023

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

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

Direct Caregivers, Residents, Administrators and U.S. Sen. Blumenthal to Advocate for Critical Staff and Funding in Nursing Homes

  • March 20, 2023

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

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Long-Term Care Workers Hold Press Conference Demanding “$25 for 2025”

  • February 7, 2023

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

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Nursing Homes

Examining Long-Term Care in America: The Impact of the Coronavirus in Nursing Homes

  • September 22, 2022

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

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Members of 1199 New England gather for a press conference outside Hamden High School 9/17/22; Photo: David Dal Zin (AFL-CIO CT) Front Feature

As Worker Organizing Soars Nationwide, Connecticut Nursing Home Caregivers to Join “Unions For All” Nationwide Women’s Day of Action

  • September 18, 2022

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

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Connecticut Nursing Home Workers to Join Day of Action, Launch National Campaign in Demand of Industrywide Reform with Pickets in Rocky Hill, Uncasville and West Haven

  • June 8, 2022

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

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

SEIU 1199NE President Rob Baril’s Statement on Updated Nursing Home COVID Fatality Data by DPH 

  • May 19, 2022

“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

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Nursing Homes & Hospitals

In Third Week of Strike for Serious Labor Violations and Affordable Health Care, Caregivers at Windsor Health and Rehab Center Set to Rally Tuesday at 10:00 AM

  • May 10, 2022

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

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Health Care Frontline Staff to Rally at Capitol in Demand of Response and Action to District 1199’s Petition Letter Recently Delivered to Gov. Ned Lamont

  • April 28, 2022

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

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