Group home workers join nursing home employees in massive SEIU strike threat
Julia Bergman
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Gov. Ned Lamont greets Jeanne Peters, 95, a rehab patient at The Reservoir, a nursing facility in West Hartford, after she was given the first COVID-19 vaccination at the nursing home Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. The home, owned by Genesis HealthCare, is among those where a strike has been authorized.Stephen Dunn / Associated Press
As thousands of unionized nursing home employees in Connecticut prepare to strike next week, group home workers announced Friday evening that they too would walk off the job if they didn’t receive better pay and benefits.
With a record-setting budget reserve, another big surplus projected and billions of federal coronavirus relief dollars on the way, top state legislative leaders are confident Connecticut has the resources to avert a nursing home strike this spring.