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At 65-years-old, Karlene Whonder works 55 hours a week as a home care worker in order to make sure she and her husband can afford medication for their health issues. Robin David and Terrell Williams, both home care workers, are often pressed between working enough hours to make ends meet but not working so many
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More than 10,000 home care workers represented by the New England Health Care Workers Union, SEIU District 1199 are waiting for negotiations to resume this week with the state for increased pay, health care and a path to retirement. Negotiations with the state have gone nowhere, according to Diedre Murch, home care director and vice
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Union long-term care workers and leaders were detained for acts of peaceful civil disobedience Thursday in Hartford in demand that the state provide funding to pay for structural changes that will let workers have a living wage, benefits and the capacity to retire with dignity. Rally participants picketed in front of 410 Capitol Avenue with