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Featured Post

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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Home Care Workers Rally For Wages, Benefits

  • September 24, 2021

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.

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Community Programs (CT)

Group Home and Home Care Workers Rally for Living Wages and Benefits

  • May 27, 2021

“Home care, group home, and nursing home workers are the invisible backbone of the healthcare system. All three of these workforces make poverty wages, forcing caregivers to work two, three

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Connecticut

It’s Time to Treat Us With Dignity

  • April 21, 2021

Home care, group home, and nursing home workers are calling on Gov. Lamont to end the cycle of structural racism that devalues the work of Black, Brown, and working-class White

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Featured Post

Long-term Care Workers Rally For A Pay Increase, Bill of Rights

  • December 24, 2020

HARTFORD, CT –  Health care workers kept a safe distance from each other as they gathered on the north steps of the state Capitol Tuesday night to call on lawmakers

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Union News

Press Release: Working People Rally To Demand That The Ultra Rich Pay Their Fair Share – 10.20.20

  • October 20, 2020

HARTFORD – A broad coalition of community, labor and faith organizations gathered today to demand the introduction of a “People’s Recovery” budget in Connecticut. In a rally held at the

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COVID-19

Home Care – August 2020 Newsletter

  • July 31, 2020

Union Home Care Workers Win 7.5% Increase in Hazard Pay All home care workers protected by District 1199’s union contract with Connecticut’s Department of Social Services and Department of Developmental

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COVID-19

Union Health Care Workers Petition To Remove DPH Official, Demand Better Protections

  • June 26, 2020

Wearing a mask and speaking through a megaphone, Jesse Martin prompted a crowd that had gathered outside the state Department of Public Health building in Hartford late Thursday afternoon. “What

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Front Feature

SEIU has an ambitious new plan for workers’ rights. Democratic candidates should take notice.

  • August 20, 2019

Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry, who leads the second largest union in the United States, has a message for Democratic candidates for president: Don’t think you are going to

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Lobby Date and Rally – March 14th, 2018

  • February 22, 2018

Join us Wednesday, March 14th at the State Capitol for a Lobby Day and Rally as we fight to win better wages and benefits. The Rally is from 11:00am –

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