{"id":44561,"date":"2025-09-26T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:13:06","slug":"hundreds-of-caregivers-go-on-strike-over-pension-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44561\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of caregivers go on strike over pension funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANCHESTER, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Around 500 caregivers across Connecticut officially went on strike Friday morning, demanding greater retirement security. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The workers, represented by SEIU 1199 New England, walked off the job at 6 a.m., rallying outside facilities like the Network Day Program in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Union leaders say members from three agencies, Network Inc., Caring Community, and Alternative Services Inc., are striking to push for an increase in employer pension contributions by 0.2 percent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Without that boost, the union says the pension fund is at risk of defaulting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The strike impacts clients and families who rely on the agencies\u2019 day programs and community living services across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The union originally planned for two agencies to join the strike but confirmed Friday morning that Caring Community had also joined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A fourth agency, Whole Life, reached an agreement with the union on Thursday, so its employees are not participating in the strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Caregivers say they\u2019re committed to continuing the fight until a fair agreement is reached.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WFSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANCHESTER, Conn. (WFSB) &#8211; Around 500 caregivers across Connecticut officially went on strike Friday morning, demanding greater retirement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33121,72,33118,25727,9808,2225,176,1446,61,60,33117,33120,1612,174,175,12025,33119,1562,16224],"class_list":["post-44561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-alternative-services-inc","tag-business","tag-caregivers","tag-connecticut-news","tag-ct-news","tag-employer","tag-finance","tag-funding","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-news","tag-network-inc","tag-pension","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-rally","tag-seiu","tag-strike","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}