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		<title>OP-ED: &#8220;Donna Brooks: Connecticut lets down women in addiction recovery&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Mar 2023 19:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Written by Donna Brooks for the Hartford Courant Link to the Digital Courant Article here Link to the PDF of the published article here Connecticut had one in-patient unit available<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2023/03/06/op-ed-donna-brooks-connecticut-lets-down-women-in-addiction-recovery/" title="OP-ED: &#8220;Donna Brooks: Connecticut lets down women in addiction recovery&#8221;">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Robin David: Connecticut’s home care workers need better wages and benefits&#8217; Hartford Courant: OP-ED</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some nights I drive along Route 8 in Naugatuck close to midnight, headed to my client’s house. My job is to help Mr. West, who is elderly, live at home<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2022/03/31/robin-david-connecticuts-home-care-workers-need-better-wages-and-benefits-hartford-courant-op-ed/" title="&#8216;Robin David: Connecticut’s home care workers need better wages and benefits&#8217; Hartford Courant: OP-ED">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OP-ED &#124; Home Care Workers Call For Higher Pay, Benefits</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a union home care worker, I feel that our pain must be heard, our struggles understood, and that those in leadership must take all actions necessary to make sure<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2021/08/02/op-ed-home-care-workers-call-for-higher-pay-benefits/" title="OP-ED &#124; Home Care Workers Call For Higher Pay, Benefits">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Moms Are Caregivers : OP-ED from CT News Junkie</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 17:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This Mother’s Day, my hope is that all mothers, but especially those of us who are caregivers to children with special needs, will gain the ability to care for our<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2021/05/09/moms-are-caregivers-op-ed-from-ct-news-junkie/" title="Moms Are Caregivers : OP-ED from CT News Junkie">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>OP-ED from CT News Junkie &#8211; I AM A MAN</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunday, April 4th, we will observe Easter, a Christian tradition celebrating the defeat of death and the hope for redemption. But April 4th is also the 53rd anniversary of the<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2021/04/04/op-ed-from-ct-news-junkie-i-am-a-man/" title="OP-ED from CT News Junkie &#8211; I AM A MAN">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: &#8216;When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back&#8217;</title>
		<link>https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2021/03/28/when-covid-19-hit-connecticuts-nursing-homes-we-cared-for-your-loved-ones-but-we-got-no-love-back/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2021/03/28/when-covid-19-hit-connecticuts-nursing-homes-we-cared-for-your-loved-ones-but-we-got-no-love-back/" title="Op-Ed from the Hartford Courant: &#8216;When COVID-19 hit Connecticut’s nursing homes, we cared for your loved ones, but we got no love back&#8217;">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8216;Personal caregivers do noble work — and are not adequately compensated&#8217; &#8211; an OP-ED from the CT Mirror</title>
		<link>https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/12/04/personal-caregivers-do-noble-work-and-are-not-adequately-compensated-op-ed-from-the-ct-mirror/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamarri Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2020 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/12/04/personal-caregivers-do-noble-work-and-are-not-adequately-compensated-op-ed-from-the-ct-mirror/" title="&#8216;Personal caregivers do noble work — and are not adequately compensated&#8217; &#8211; an OP-ED from the CT Mirror">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Grateful for work of home health aides</title>
		<link>https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/09/04/grateful-for-work-of-home-health-aides/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/09/04/grateful-for-work-of-home-health-aides/" title="Grateful for work of home health aides">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>&#8220;Home care workers like me deserve a wage that provides dignity and respect&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/07/01/home-care-workers-like-me-deserve-a-wage-that-provides-dignity-and-respect/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For me, July 1 is my “a little more Independence Day.” I’m getting a raise from&#160;$15.85&#160;to $16.25 an hour, along with 10,000 personal care attendants like me who with our<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/07/01/home-care-workers-like-me-deserve-a-wage-that-provides-dignity-and-respect/" title="&#8220;Home care workers like me deserve a wage that provides dignity and respect&#8221;">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars</title>
		<link>https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/06/15/no-where-to-hide-from-covid-19-behind-bars/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[State residents may feel confined by social and work restrictions brought on by COVID-19, but for prisoners and workers in Connecticut’s jails the luxury of self-isolating at home doesn’t exist.<div><a class="btn-filled btn" href="https://www.seiu1199ne.org/2020/06/15/no-where-to-hide-from-covid-19-behind-bars/" title="No Where To Hide From COVID-19 Behind Bars">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
		
		
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