Homecare workers to rally for raises
Hundreds of homecare workers from the state's largest healthcare workers union, Local 1199 SEIU, plan to rally at the State House today to demand better wages and healthcare benefits. The union says that about 22,000 personal care attendants who work with the elderly and disabled statewide have no benefits and that personal care attendants earn a flat $10.84 per hour, contributing to high turnover rates. The union says that the state rejected its proposal for a $1-per-hour salary increase and healthcare benefits for the workers and that the state's counter offer, a 36-cent raise, is half of what the workers received when they got their last raise in 2005. The administration says it offered the 36-cent wage increase as part of a one-year deal while it negotiates a three-year contract with the newly unionized workers.
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