How Four Black Women Changed Homecare Organizing Forever.
https://portside.org/2024-02-19/how-four-black-women-changed-homecare-organizing-forever
https://forgeorganizing.org/article/how-four-black-women-changed-labor-organizing-forever
Forty years ago, Irma Sherman and the over 150 homecare workers employed by “McMaid” (Yes, McMaid really was the name of the company) decided they’d had enough of low wages and no benefits and began to organize their union with United Labor Unions (ULU) Local 880, a small, independent union founded by ACORN, the national community organization.
Study identifies factors driving home care workers to quit their jobs
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20240219/Study-identifies-factors-driving-home-care-workers-to-quit-their-jobs.aspx
maybe falling through the cracks of the mostly non-existent "social safety net" was actually my escape route
#nosafetynet
#fallingthroughthecracks
#escapefromsociety
#antiwork
#lifeintheinterstices
i work very hard. i just don't have a job
#homecareworkers
#domesticlabor
#emotionallabor
#NewYork: thousands of #HomeCareWorkers go without full pay for years, even when agencies ordered to pay
#HomeCareAgencies allegedly steal their wages by paying for only 13 of 24 hours
#WageTheft #union #unions #Exploitation #Capitalism #ClassWar #DepartmentOfLabor
MN, you're going to set aside your class interests so home care workers can live in comfort and dignity, amiright?
https://workdaymagazine.org/disabled-minnesotans-are-facing-a-home-care-crisis-workers-are-calling-on-democrats-to-change-that/
#MN #Everywhere #HomecareWorkers #Wages
Home care workers are negotiating their contract in hopes that the state will allocate some of the $17.6 billion surplus to improve pay and benefits—a test of the state’s Democratic trifecta’s political will to solve a worsening crisis for disabled people and their caregivers. Gail Larson lives in Bloomington, Minnesota with her fiancé, with whom […]
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