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Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Kara O’Dwyer, center, and other protestors with health care union SEIU 1199 New England gathered in April to ask for better treatment of nursing home, long-term care, home care, group home workers, including health insurance, better wages and proper PPE. The state’s largest health care workers’ union warned 33 nursing homes that about 3,400 of its members are poised to strike in two weeks. The strike notices, served on facilities owned by RegalCare, Genesis HealthCare, Autumn Lake Healthcare and iCare Management chains, could be the beginning of a larger work stoppage this spring. But a strike notice does not guarantee employees will walk off the job on May 14. And if there is a work stoppage, it could be indefinite or it could be a fixed period, such as one or two days. ....
Strikes possible at more than 50 CT nursing homes this spring Battered by pandemic, low-paid workers and cash-strapped homes ask state for help Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org Kara O’Dwyer, center, and other protestors with health care union SEIU 1199, ask police to release detained protestors in Hartford recently. About 100 protestors gathered to ask for better treatment of nursing home, long-term care, home care, group home workers, including health insurance, better wages and proper PPE. Still reeling financially from the coronavirus pandemic, Connecticut’s nursing home industry could face strikes at more than 50 facilities this spring, an industry leader and a key state health official warned Wednesday morning. ....