New members of 1199 family: Arden House LPNs

Hamden, CT—By a vote of 36-18, LPN’s at the Arden House nursing home became the newest members of District 1199 on Thursday, September 2.

LPN’s will now be united with their 1199 sisters and brothers in the Service and Maintenance unit – CNA’s; dietary, housekeeping and laundry workers; technicians; clerks and receptionists – at the 360-bed Hamden facility, the third-largest nursing home in Connecticut.

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Spectrum Family Voice

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CVH Staff Speak Out: Short Staffing Crisis is Hurting Patient Care

Mental health staff travelled to the Capitol on Tuesday, June 2 to deliver a powerful message to Governor Rell: chronic, rampant short-staffing at CVH is “a disaster waiting to happen.”

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Help Spectrum Workers

If you want to help support the health care workers against Spectrum Healthcare, please write a check to:

 “The 1199 Strike and Defense Fund”

and mail it to;

77 Huyshope Ave.

Hartford CT 06106

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Negotiations Update: Spectrum Moves Backwards

Winsted, CT—In negotiations last night, Spectrum showed their true colors by presenting a new proposal that moves backwards from their last position prior to the strike.

“We came here prepared to settle a fair contract,” Vice President Almena Thompson told the sixty-plus Spectrum strikers packing the conference room at Northwestern CT Community College in Winsted. “Instead, we got insulting new demands even more unacceptable than before. And they don’t even have the courage to face us.”

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Governor's Agents Storm Out After Failing to Produce Analysis of Impact to Services, Costs to Pension Plan of Latest Retirement Incentive

Wednesday evening, Rell Administration representatives abruptly left a planned meeting with leaders of SEBAC to discuss the governor's latest Early Retirement Incentive Program (ERIP). The governor's plan could cost taxpayers over $1 billion dollars while decimating state services. Rell’s representatives stormed out of the meeting after failing to produce any analysis of the impact to services and the costs to our pension plan.

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1199 Spectrum Fight In The News

• News Coverage from News Channel 8

• News Coverage from Channel 3 Eyewitness News

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