{"id":86656,"date":"2025-09-26T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/86656\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T11:50:07","slug":"hundreds-of-caregivers-go-on-strike-over-pension-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/86656\/","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":86657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[57090,79,57087,50978,38395,18,4282,1510,19,17,57086,57089,2987,234,235,8743,57088,13269,43314],"class_list":{"0":"post-86656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-alternative-services-inc","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-caregivers","11":"tag-connecticut-news","12":"tag-ct-news","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-employer","15":"tag-funding","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-manchester-news","19":"tag-network-inc","20":"tag-pension","21":"tag-personal-finance","22":"tag-personalfinance","23":"tag-rally","24":"tag-seiu","25":"tag-strike","26":"tag-union"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}