Prison guards seeking hazard pay for work during pandemic
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press
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Correction Officer Ginny Ligi says she was working 80-hour weeks in April 2020, often without the needed personal protective equipment, when she began feeling sick.
A test soon confirmed her worst fear the intense vertigo, nausea and headaches were symptoms of COVID-19. She is one of an estimated 1,700 Connecticut Department of Correction workers to contract the coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to her union.
Ligi, who works at the Cheshire Correctional Institution, spent the next month at home, much of it in bed, worried about her future and whether she would pass the coronavirus on to her husband and three children.
The Connecticut AFL-CIO on Monday asked Connecticut lawmakers to use this week s special legislative session to allocate federal COVID-19 relief funds to
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