{"id":186325,"date":"2025-09-27T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186325\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:13:08","slug":"caregiving-workers-continue-to-strike-as-they-demand-pension-security-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186325\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregiving workers continue to strike as they demand pension security \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcconnecticut.com\/news\/local\/hundreds-of-connecticut-group-home-workers-strike-over-pension-contributions\/3643640\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caregivers in Colchester, Manchester, Andover and Vernon continued marching on the picket line early Saturday morning as the group demands better pension security.<\/a> These employees work with adults living with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love my individuals,\u201d said Caring Community day service specialist Adam Barnett Ramus. \u201cI love being able to work where I work and I just would love to be able to retire with dignity for myself and have others retire with dignity and provide for my individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Employees of Network Inc., Caring Community, and Alternative Services Inc. say they want the company to sign an agreement that increases its contribution by 0.2% to employees\u2019 pensions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_4749.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are plenty of other group home companies that are able to provide this fully vested, fully funded pension plan,\u201d said Barnett Ramus.<\/p>\n<p>New England Health Care Employees Union, SEIU 1199NE representatives say that without this increase, the pension will default. Representatives also said workers could face pension reductions of several hundred dollars per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is us trying to gith for what we can expect to receive when we retire from this job,\u201d said Nick Greer who also works as a day services specialist.<\/p>\n<p>Employees say while they\u2019re not being paid, the strike is not impacting other benefits such as health care. Workers say they\u2019re willing to strike until a deal is struck.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt midnight tonight is when this deal was supposed to be reached,\u201d said Greer on Saturday morning. \u201cAnd we want to see an agreement. We want to see that signature, so that we can get back to our regular schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Caregivers in Colchester, Manchester, Andover and Vernon continued marching on the picket line early Saturday morning as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[109410,28,55672,21311,147,530,109411],"class_list":{"0":"post-186325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-andover","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-colchester","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-personal-finance","13":"tag-personalfinance","14":"tag-vernon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}