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Thu Jul 01, 2010 at 16:44:02 PM EDT
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New York State took another critical step for domestic workers today! The State Legistlature passed the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to give labor protections to nannies, eldercare workers, and housekeepers in New York. There are over 200,000 domestic workers in New York City alone. For the first time, domestic workers will have a set 40 hour work week that will also include one day of rest. Domestic Workers United, a JFSJ grantee, has been spearheading this fight and shepherding the bill through the Legistlature. Governer Paterson is expected to sign the bill into law. Read the New York Times briefing here.
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Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 10:43:58 AM EST
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The news cycles of late seem to have been dominated by two major themes: the effects of the financial crisis on other sectors of the economy and the nomination of a whole new cast of federal officials under the Obama administration. While the talking heads expound about predictions, analyses, and mea culpas (or lack thereof), there is a figure that has been a silent force at the forefront of both issues: domestic workers. In the case of new appointees, a number, including President Obama’s choice for White House performance officer, Nancy Killefer, and an erstwhile frontrunner for Hillary Clinton’s vacated senate seat, Caroline Kennedy ran into trouble around their domestic workers. And in the case of the financial crisis, the New York Times published an entire article about how those negatively affected by the economic downturn have been laying off their domestic workers all over the New York metropolitan area, which my colleague Rachel Berger discussed in an earlier JSpot post.
Domestic Workers United, a grantee of Jewish Funds for Justice, is actively working to better the lives of these very workers. Primarily women of color and immigrants, these workers are often invisible both to those in other positions in society and to each other, despite the fact that, by caring for our aging parents and our young children, they support us in ways that make all our other work possible.
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