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Join Us to Protest Governor Hochul on Wednesday, October 8
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…
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Testimony Submitted to New York State Community Commission on Reparations
Home care worker and NMASS member Margarita Benedict gave testimony this month to The New York State Community Commission on Reparations Remedies. Established by legislation, the Commission examines the history of slavery in New York and its lasting effects, as well as patterns of racial discrimination against people of African descent. It reports findings and…
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Coalition to Fight for Our Health & Lives
On May Day, hundreds of workers across age, race, industry, and immigration status came together at City Hall to launch a people-first agenda. Alberto Neri spoke, describing the sources of the Coalition to Fight for Our Health & Lives. I’m Alberto and I’m a working artist here in New York City. I’m here today representing…
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May Day Rally!
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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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Sign Our Pledge and Join Us on the Picket Line!
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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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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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