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United Jewish Council: Stop promoting racism and antisemitism in our community!
UJCES Home Care forces its Latina home care workers to work brutal 24-hour shifts, often back-to-back. These 24-hour workdays destroy workers’ mental health, physical health, marriages, and families. For this backbreaking work, UJCES illegally pays only 13 hours of every 24-hour shift, and owes its workers millions of dollars in stolen wages. For protection, UJCES colludes with both the…
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Home Attendants to Governor Hochul: Stop Supporting Violence Against Women
Four hundred home care workers and supporters amassed outside the midtown office of Governor Hochul on March 12th to protest her protection of the racist and sexist exploitation of the 24-hour workday and the rampant theft of women’s wages. They denounced Hochul for illegally awarding a multi-billion dollar CDPAP contract to the Chinese American Planning…
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Our Ability to Organize is Under Attack! What Do We Do? Fight Back!
Home care agencies such as CPC and UJC claim immigrant women home attendants like working 24 hours, while celebrity restaurant boss Jeremy Wladis intimidates immigrants for speaking out against racism. In NYC, immigrant workers are uniting all workers against the racism that is fueling divisions nationally. Rather than being silent, workers are rising up against…
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Origin Story of the Ain’t I A Woman?! Campaign
Today’s No More 24 movement has origins in the struggle of garment factory workers for control of their time. They launched the national Ain’t I A Woman?! Campaign in 1998. Factory workers sewing clothing in Brooklyn for the garment manufacturer StreetBeat came forward in 1997. The workers had been fired after asking for time off…
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NMASS featured in New York Community Trust Quarterly
Home Health Care Workers Unite to End 24-Hour Shifts. Published in the Trust’s Summer 2024 Quarterly. NYC’s home health care workforce, largely comprised of immigrant women and women of color, is expected to double in size in the coming years, as the city’s population ages. Many home health care agencies require employees to work 24-hour…
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NMASS members speak out on consequences of 24-hour homecare work shifts
Belkys A Cid de Bruno and Valeria Guerrero featured in Part 3 of the Ain’t I a Woman?! campaign’s Instagram series on why home care workers are going on hunger strike! Go to nomore24.org to support hundreds of women with the same stories.
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Recognizing Home Attendants Organizing Against the 24-hour Workday on International Women’s Day
Today NMASS members joined other working women to recognize the leadership of the home attendants who have been fighting to end the inhuman 24-hour workday. Working women stood together to receive an award from New York City Council Member Christopher Marte. NMASS member Georgina Abreu expressed her excitement and stressed the importance of this recognition…
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Fight to End 24-Hour Shifts Featured in New York Times
NMASS member featured in New York Times coverage of our fight to end the 24-hour workday for homecare workers. Valeria Guerrero, 63, a former home care aide from Honduras who worked 24-hour shifts for over 20 years, said she averaged three to four hours of sleep a night. She blames her worsening diabetes on her…
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Hunger Strike Announcement
Home Care Workers Announce Plan to Hunger Strike Against the 24-hour Workday and Speaker Adams’ Support of Violence Against Women of Color in NYC Spectrum News Coverage On Wednesday, January 24, home care workers and workers of all backgrounds convened at City Hall to demand that Speaker Adams stop supporting the 24-hour workday. Protesters condemned…
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