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Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Long-term care workers block the intersection in front of the Department of Social Services to draw attention to the treatment of caregivers. {Updated at 5:05 p.m.} The head of the state’s largest health care workers’ union said Wednesday that the labor group and the state have not yet reached a deal to avert a nursing home employee strike planned for Friday. But SEIU District 1199 New England did postpone plans to strike at seven of the 33 facilities targeted to face a work stoppage Friday because those care centers hadn’t made sufficient preparations for te...

Strike deadline nears for 3,400 Connecticut nursing home workers Workers at 33 nursing homes in Connecticut could begin a strike on Friday, May 14, if their demands for better pay, benefits and staffing ratios are not met. More than 3,400 nurses, receptionists, dietary aides, housekeepers and laundry staff at these facilities have been working without a contract since March 15. Contracts at 18 other Connecticut nursing homes have expired as well, and workers at these sites could join the strike, should it occur. Healthcare workers protest over payroll delays in February outside of Allied Comm...

{Updated at 7:35 p.m.} Gov. Ned Lamont put the state’s largest healthcare workers’ union on notice Tuesday evening that he’d made his last and best financial offer to avert a strike threatened for Friday. The governor’s chief of staff, Paul Mounds Jr., also used a virtual news conference to challenge SEIU District 1199 New England and more than three dozen congregate care facilities to remain at the bargaining table and hammer out a deal. The $280 million, two-year package the administration disclosed publicly Monday “was the best and final offer proposal which would be presented,�...

Updated on May 11, 2021 at 5:18 pm NBC Universal, Inc. The state has requested help from the Connecticut National Guard in the event that workers strike as planned starting at the end of this week. More than 3,400 workers at 33 Connecticut nursing homes are ready to strike beginning Friday if demands for better wages, benefits and staffing ratios aren’t met. Union officials said Monday that 600 additional workers at another six nursing homes have voted to strike beginning May 28. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. If the strike occ...

Lamont orders CT National Guard to prepare to aid nursing homes ahead of planned workers strike Nearly 4,000 health workers are set to begin a strike on Friday if negotiations between the union and the nursing home owners fail. Author: Associated Press, FOX61 Staff Published: 2:50 PM EDT May 11, 2021 Updated: 10:18 PM EDT May 11, 2021 HARTFORD, Conn. — Gov. Ned Lamont issued sent a letter on Tuesday to the Connecticut National Guard requesting assistance if nursing home workers go forward with a planned strike later this week. Nearly 4,000 hea...