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Connecticut’s largest healthcare workers’ union and Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration reached a tentative deal late Thursday on state funding for group homes for the developmentally disabled, averting a planned strike Friday involving about 2,000 caregivers. SEIU District 1199 New England announced shortly after 11:30 p.m. that it had pulled its strike notices — about four hours after some group home operators had begun transferring clients to stay temporarily at nursing homes or to live with their families.

Union strikes at more than 200 group home locations across Connecticut have been called off in a late-hour funding deal between workers and state officials

A strike of 2,100 group home workers, scheduled for 6 a.m. Friday, was called off late...

Unionized group home workers, and operators, are appealing to state leaders to set aside more funding for the industry as a strike scheduled for Friday

A tense wait for strike talks as group homes delay moving residents FacebookTwitterEmail The vehicles are ready and destinations are set for residents of 200 group homes to move to safe locations ahead of a Friday morning strike of 2,100 workers. And all day Thursday, group home operators have changed plans on the fly, pushing back deadlines to relocate residents until the last possible minute. By mid-day Thursday, Barry Simon, CEO of Oak Hill, which operates 70 of the affected homes, said he’d already twice pushed back plans to relocate 200 residents to nursing homes — from 9 a.m. to noo...