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Connecticut Offering $280M to Nursing Homes to Avoid Strikes Connecticut officials on Monday proposed an additional $280 million in funding for nursing homes in an effort to avoid strikes by nearly 4,000 health workers that are set to begin Friday if negotiations fail. Democratic Governor Ned Lamont’s budget director, Office of Policy and Management Secretary Melissa McCaw, sent letters to labor union and industry officials outlining the proposed funding, which includes $149.5 million for 4.5% wage increases for nurses, aides and other nursing home workers in the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years. “We’ve got an aggressive proposal on the table because there’s nothing more important than taking care of our seniors, and I hope to God the nurses are there to do it,” Lamont said Monday. ....
Connecticut Calls in National Guard as Nursing Home Workers Plan Strike Connecticut Gov. Edward Miner Ned Lamont Jr. speaks at St. Vincent s Medical Center in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on February 26, 2021. Joseph Prezioso / AFP via Getty Images By Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has called on the state National Guard to stand ready to monitor the standard of care if nursing home workers proceed to strike as planned on Friday. The workers are demanding better pay and benefits and more robust staffing and have reached a stalemate in negotiations. More than 3,400 of the District 1199 New England Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are planning to strike after the governor, a Democrat, warned the workers that the state and nursing home ownersâ offer is the âbest and final offerâ that the state was going to put forth. The union rejected that offer on Tuesday night, building momentum for the strike. Another 600 workers in the union are plannin ....
By Keith M. Phaneuf, CT Mirror The state and its largest healthcare workers union continued their game of brinksmanship Monday as Connecticut inched closer to a major strike involving nursing and group homes. While SEIU District 1199 New England added six more nursing homes to the potential strike, lifting the tally to 39, Gov. Ned Lamont disclosed he offered “an aggressive proposal” involving $280 million in new federal and state money to bolster the industry and avert a work stoppage. Also Monday, the union and Yale University unveiled a new study that concluded state health officials were lax in their regulation of nursing homes during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. ....
McCaw sent the letters to the Service Employees International Union’s District 1199 New England, which represents about 5,000 nursing home workers in Connecticut, and the presidents of the Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities and LeadingAge Connecticut, which represent nursing homes and other health care facilities around the state. There was no immediate response from the union or the two industry groups. The Lamont administration’s proposed funding package also includes a temporary 10% Medicaid rate increase from July 1, 2021 to March 31, 2022, totaling $85.8 million. In addition, the state would increase funding by $19.5 million for pension enhancements for workers, $13 million for worker training and $12.5 million for hazard pay for workers. ....