Oak Hill School in Hartford, the largest nonprofit agency serving the developmentally disabled.
Hundreds of developmentally disabled group home residents, trapped in a game of state budget brinkmanship, could be transferred into nursing homes next Thursday unless that battle is resolved soon.
At least two of the private, nonprofit agencies hired by the state to run group homes have begun plans to move clients into congregate care centers or to send them to live with their families if about 2,000 human service aides belonging to SEIU District 1199 New England go on strike next Friday.
Union members, who say they have faced years of low pay and poor benefits and then risked illness and death working during the first year of the coronavirus insist conditions must improve.
Nursing home union not declaring victory yet despite strike cancellation
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Rob Baril, president of SEIU 1199 New England, stood with nursing home workers who came to the state Capitol in Hartford, Conn. on Wednesday May 1, 2019 to renew their threats of a strike.Emilie Munson / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo
The strike of thousands of nursing home workers is off, but the standoff continues even with the crisis eased.
The state’s largest health care union has reached a deal with just one of the nine nursing home companies targeted. The union is prepared to take that deal to the remaining operators to get them to agree to new four-year contracts that include significant wage increases and enhanced benefits for workers.
Group home workers join nursing home employees in massive SEIU strike threat
Julia Bergman
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Gov. Ned Lamont greets Jeanne Peters, 95, a rehab patient at The Reservoir, a nursing facility in West Hartford, after she was given the first COVID-19 vaccination at the nursing home Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. The home, owned by Genesis HealthCare, is among those where a strike has been authorized.Stephen Dunn / Associated Press
As thousands of unionized nursing home employees in Connecticut prepare to strike next week, group home workers announced Friday evening that they too would walk off the job if they didn’t receive better pay and benefits.