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MARK PAZNIOKAS :: CTMIRROR.ORG Rob Baril, the president of SEIU 1199, says state employees serve raises. Behind him to the left is Sal Luciano, president of the state AFL-CIO. Unionized state employees emphasized their roles in preserving essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday as they protested the refusal of Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration to offer raises in contract talks that seem headed to binding arbitration.Hundreds marched around the state Capitol at a rally calculated to highlight the range of services provided by the roughly 40,000 workers whose contracts expired ...

Chanting ‘no more cuts, tax the rich,’ hundreds of unionized state workers rally at Capitol ahead of contract fight Daniela Altimari, Hartford Courant © Mark Mirko/The Hartford Courant Hartford, Ct. - 07/13/2021 - Some of more than 40,000 State workers represented by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) rally outside the Connecticut State Capitol today demanding fair contracts. Hundreds of state workers, from university professors to correction officers, rallied on the steps of the state Capitol Tuesday afternoon, hoping to galvanize public support for...

Within the space of one month the SEIU District 1199 North East called off three strikes by nursing home and group home workers in Connecticut who were fighting for a living wage and safe staff-patient ratios.

Strike averted at Connecticut group homes Hartford Courant (CT) Connecticut called off a strike after agreeing on a $184 million state funding package for the next two years. More than 2,100 caregivers were set to strike at 6 a.m. Friday as they demanded increased wages and better health insurance and retirement benefits, said Pedro Zayas, communications director of SEIU District 1199 New England. They listed their demands in a “Long-Term Care Workers’ Bill of Rights.” Rob Baril, president of the union, said, “We believe this additional funding will resolve the open contracts. We...

Thousands of workers at Connecticut group homes were set to strike this morning, and walk off from hundreds of sites, but the New England Health Care Employees...