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As negotiations sputter, nursing homes workers in Connecticut edge closer to a strike. A walkout affecting 1,000 nursing home residents could come this week. Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant
With a potentially traumatic nursing home strike looming in Connecticut this week, Gov. Ned Lamont is offering $280 million in federal and state assistance to boost wages and support struggling privately owned facilities in the state.
Lamont’s offer comes after days of fruitless negotiations between the workers and nursing home owners and as the union representing thousands of health care employees in Connecticut authorized a strike at six additional nursing homes Monday, bringing the total number of long-term care facilities affected by the potential walkout to 39.
Connecticut offering $280M to nursing homes to avoid strikes
DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Connecticut officials on Monday proposed an additional $280 million in funding for nursing homes in an effort to avoid strikes by nearly 4,000 health workers that are set to begin Friday if negotiations fail.
Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont s budget director, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Melissa McCaw, sent letters to labor union and industry officials outlining the proposed funding, which includes $149.5 million for 4.5% wage increases for nurses, aides and other nursing home workers in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years.
“We’ve got an aggressive proposal on the table because there’s nothing more important than taking care of our seniors, and I hope to God the nurses are there to do it, Lamont said Monday.
As negotiations sputter, nursing homes workers in Connecticut edge closer to a strike. A walkout affecting 1,000 nursing home residents could come this week. Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant
With a potentially traumatic nursing home strike looming in Connecticut this week, Gov. Ned Lamont is offering $280 million in federal and state assistance to boost wages and support struggling privately owned facilities in the state.
Lamont’s offer comes after days of fruitless negotiations between the workers and nursing home owners and as the union representing thousands of health care employees in Connecticut authorized a strike at six additional nursing homes Monday, bringing the total number of long-term care facilities affected by the potential walkout to 39.
Published May 10. 2021 5:26PM
KEITH M. PHANEUF, The Connecticut Mirror
The state and its largest healthcare workers union continued their game of brinksmanship Monday as Connecticut inched closer to a major strike involving nursing and group homes.
While SEIU District 1199 New England added six more nursing homes to the potential strike, lifting the tally to 39, the Senate leader of the legislature s budget-writing panel announced plans to funnel hundreds of millions of new state and federal dollars into related healthcare programs in the next budget cycle.
Also Monday, the union and Yale University unveiled a new study that concluded state health officials were lax in their regulation of nursing homes during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.