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Don’t have healthcare? Healthcare you have too expensive? Can’t get the care you need?
Homecare workers are mobilizing to pass the NY Health Act! Whether we’re uninsured, or on employer or union insurance, Medicaid, or marketplace insurance, all of us are trapped in worsening working conditions—longer hours that destroy health and decrease wages. Join the WorkingPeople4Health Campaign! Read more
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NMASS demands more than what special interests say is possible — and wins.
Just two years ago, people said that our Ain’t I A Woman coalition would never end the 24-hour workday. Read more
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Court Orders Hochul’s Dept. of Labor to Reopen Home Care Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints
Home care workers celebrated a court victory this month requiring the NY State Department of Labor to re-open wage theft cases it illegally dropped, and to enforce the labor law. In an article on the decision, Documented NY reported that, in 2019, in response to “widespread noncompliance with the law, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that… Read more
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Governor Hochul, Enforce the Law, or Resign!
Workers protested outside @govkathyhochul‘s office in Manhattan Dec. 17th to condemn her collusion with insurance and home care companies, and to demand billions of dollars in back wages. Their chant? “Governor Hochul, Enforce the Law, or Resign!” Antonio Delgado @delgadoforny, Lieutenant Governor of New York State, sent his statement of support. “Home care workers – overwhelmingly women-of-color… Read more
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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… Read more
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End the criminalization of working people!
Join us to write to Gov. Gavin Newsom, applauding his resistance to Trump’s deployment of the National Guard and the violent ICE raids and urge him to further call on Trump to end the criminalization of working people! Trump’s latest policies, such as deportations of green card holders and revocation of birthright citizenship, threaten both immigrants and… Read more
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