“When I walked in today and I saw all the support, it felt so good that someone else is seeing what we’ve been seeing,” said Paulette Belin, certified.
Union leaders said they’ve reached tentative agreements with the owners of four facilities just before the strike deadline, but negotiations have not yet been successful at Windsor Health and Rehab Center.
Nursing home workers are striking in Windsor Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with their employer following six months of negotiations. The.
Nursing home workers are striking in Windsor Friday morning after failing to reach an agreement with their employer following six months of negotiations. The.
Gov. Ned Lamont and the General Assembly thought they eliminated the threat of a major nursing home strike last spring when they pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into an industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic.
But the risk of Connecticut’s first nursing home strike since 2012 albeit a small one reared its head Tuesday when the state’s largest health care workers union put five homes on notice for a work stoppage on April 22.