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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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. Read more
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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… Read more
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