More than 100 long-term care workers blocked traffic in Hartford Wednesday afternoon in a protest calling for better wages, more affordable health care and other changes to their working conditions, saying they have put themselves at great risk to care for the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic.
“We’re the voice for the voiceless,” said Darlene Deprey, an LPN at Westside Care Center in Manchester. “Our patients can be your mother, father, brother, sister. One day it will be me. I take care of people how I pray people would take care of me. I’m not young anymore, one day that will be me.