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Nursing home strikes loom large in CT as strike votes underway By Keith M. Phaneuf Connecticut continues to slide closer to a major nursing home strike with initial union votes at 33 facilities overwhelmingly favoring a strike, and balloting at 11 more homes scheduled to begin shortly after May 1. Rob Baril, president of SEIU District 1199 New England —which represents about 5,000 nursing home workers in the state — said his members “have been stretched beyond their breaking points” by the health and economic risks of the coronavirus pandemic. Baril provided the strike vote update on...

Nursing home strikes loom large in CT as strike votes are underway Union leader: Balloting so far overwhelmingly favors a work stoppage SEIU 1199 President Rob Baril, center, says members so far have voted overwhelmingly to strike. Connecticut continues to slide closer to a major nursing home strike with initial union votes at 33 facilities overwhelmingly favoring a strike, and balloting at 11 more homes scheduled to begin shortly after May 1. Rob Baril, president of SEIU District 1199 New England —which represents about 5,000 nursing home workers in the state — said his members “have ...

Strikes possible at more than 50 CT nursing homes this spring Battered by pandemic, low-paid workers and cash-strapped homes ask state for help Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Kara O’Dwyer, center, and other protestors with health care union SEIU 1199, ask police to release detained protestors in Hartford recently. About 100 protestors gathered to ask for better treatment of nursing home, long-term care, home care, group home workers, including health insurance, better wages and proper PPE. Still reeling financially from the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s nursing home industry could face ...

Nursing home workers detained in protest at state office building demanding better wages Hartford Courant (CT) Nursing home and long-term care workers were detained Thursday afternoon after they entered a state office building and refused to leave during a protest calling for better wages and health care. It was not immediately clear how many of the workers who took part in the protest were taken in custody, or what they were charged with, but photographs shared by SEIU 1199NE, a union that represents nursing homes and other long-term care workers across the state, showed a small group of ind...

1:52 Twice this week, unionized workers have shut down streets around the capitol in protest of Gov. Ned Lamont’s state budget plans. Most recently, long-term care workers and members of New England Health Care Employees Union District 1199, SEIU staged a picket Thursday afternoon outside the state Office of Policy and Management in Hartford.  They demanded that the state provide more funding for better wages and benefits that reflect their roles on the front-lines of the pandemic in nursing facilities, home care, and group homes. “We are so invisible, we are so voiceless to them,” uni...