Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont says his administration has received copies of strike postponement notices at 26 nursing homes from District 1199 SEIU and New England Health Care Employees Union. The unions had planned to lead thousands workers on a strike Friday morning over staffing shortages and low-pay. The Democratic governor detailed the agreement Thursday afternoon.
“Which is a four-year deal that puts front and center our nurses who have been there at the nursing homes taking care of our seniors through thick and thin over the last of 14 months,” Lamont said. “They’ll be getting a significant raise over the next four years. We originally had a two-year deal, now it’s a four-year agreement.”
Lamont's office says copies of the union’s strike withdrawal notices were received by the Connecticut Department of Public Health late this afternoon from nursing homes owned by iCare Health Network, Genesis Healthcare, and Autumn Lake Healthcare.
Lamont says the withdrawal notices reference a postponed strike date of June 7, along with another strike notice of May 28 at another 13 nursing homes. He says those are still in effect pending contract settlement between nursing home owners and union leaders.
