There is no official marking of COVID-19 anniversaries in Connecticut, not the first of 730,811 positive tests, the first of 10,615 deaths nor the first of six emergency declarations, all of which took place in March 2020.
But on Tuesday, outside a community center on the east side of Manchester, the administration of Gov. Ned Lamont and local officials looked back before talking about what’s next.
“March madness,” recalled Mayor Jay Moran, who was the athletic director of Southern Connecticut State University when the National Guard rolled up and converted SCSU’s field house into a field hospital. “Remember that, governor?”
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If Governor Lamont cannot come up with a last-minute deal with the Service Employees International Union to prevent the strike by 3,400 nursing home workers Friday, he plans to resort to military forces to defeat the strike.
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Gov. Ned Lamont put the state’s largest health care 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,” Mounds said, adding, “this is a very fair, aggressive and honest offer that has been put forth by the governor.”