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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

By Joe Maniscalco for Work-Bites. Advocates pushing for passage of the “No More 24” bill in the New York City Council put 200 or more people in the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, Nov. 16, loudly demanding Speaker Adrienne Adams stop blocking the measure or step down. They promise to be back and be…