More than 2,000 group home workers threaten to strike by May 21
Work stoppage could exceed 5,000 caregivers if nursing home staffers strike as well
Oak Hill School. Group home workers have threatened to strike.
Connecticut’s largest health care workers’ union announced Friday that more than 2,000 group home staffers who serve the developmentally disabled and people suffering from mental illness or drug addiction plan to strike on May 21.
The announcement by SEIU District 1199 New England comes just seven days before 3,400 of its member nursing home workers are set to hit the picket lines — a move that dramatically increases the pressure on state officials to increase public support for health care services.