Does Gov. Hochul protect immigrants from Trump’s deportation machine only to exploit them?!
| Home care workers, most of whom are immigrants, are rallying with workers across all industries on Wednesday, October 8 to protest Governor Kathy Hochul’s upholding of violent 24-hour workdays and rampant wage theft. Hochul’s promotion of these exploitative conditions in home care has destroyed the health and families of hundreds of thousands of women, making New York a sanctuary NOT for immigrants, but for exploitative employers and insurance companies. Home care workers are standing up to say, “we refuse to be criminalized by Trump, AND we refuse to be slaves under Hochul!” Hundreds of thousands of home care workers have been forced to work years of 24-hour shifts, and paid only 13 hours per shift. Hochul encourages this wage theft by authorizing the Department of Labor to illegally close hundreds of home care workers’ cases and to ignore a court order to reopen those cases. Hochul also maintains the 24-hour workday by rewarding the Chinese American Planning Council Home Attendant Program with a multi-billion dollar contract, knowing that it stole more than $90 million in wages from its workers. Home care workers’ organizing is changing industry practices: many agencies offering 24-hour care have split shifts into 12 hours and begun to resolve home care workers’ wage claims; the United Nations is investigating the 24-hour system as a crime against humanity. Hochul’s shameful sanctioning of the 24-hour workday and wage theft means that worsening workplace conditions are hitting all of us: lower wages, longer hours, more workload, scarce job openings, no health benefits. Let’s stand together on October 8 to demand that Hochul enforce the labor law, so that home care workers can recover their stolen wages, and that together we can abolish the 24-hour day and take a stand against government-sponsored exploitation. Join us and spread the word! |
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