Connecticut
Staffing critical health care services makes all the difference in saving lives. Right now, children in urgent need of support| … Continue reading Connecticut Must Staff and Expand Critical Health Care Services to Save Lives!
Good union home care jobs must be at the center of fixing our nation’s overstretched and underfunded long-term care system … Continue reading September 4th is Home Care Day!
COVID-19
When Tanya Beckford was infected with COVID-19 while working at an assisted-living facility in Newington earlier this year, she told … Continue reading Nursing home workers ask Connecticut lawmakers for help as they prepare for a potential second wave of coronavirus infections
Last spring, as coronavirus swept through Connecticut and the state’s nursing homes became ground zero for deadly outbreaks, nursing aide … Continue reading ‘We were used’: Hundreds of nursing home workers are laid off as financial crisis hits the facilities
COVID-19 hit nursing homes in the Northeast states particularly hard, but those living in Connecticut long term care facilities died … Continue reading Report offers clues to what went wrong in lethal COVID outbreak in nursing homes
State officials, who had planned to fund the broad testing of nursing home staff through Aug. 31, are extending their … Continue reading State extends funding for nursing home staff testing through October
Uncategorized
The country’s top five labor union groups are calling on Congress to include expanded paid leave benefits in a new COVID-19 relief … Continue reading Major unions push for paid leave in COVID-19 aid bill
COVID-19
Please see below the links to the health center web sites. This is the best means to access FREE testing … Continue reading Free Testing for Asymptomatic or Symptomatic PCAs
Union Home Care Workers Win 7.5% Increase in Hazard Pay All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract … Continue reading Home Care – August 2020 Newsletter
For months, Lurlette Newell avoided hugs from her grandchildren, a heartbreaking ordeal for a woman who loves to show affection. … Continue reading Broad testing of nursing home staff is considered crucial in stopping COVID. But who will pay for it?