Fighting for Domestic Worker Rights
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Nannies, housecleaners, and home care workers face a unique challenge: they often work in isolation, behind closed doors, and in their employers’ homes.
Because of this, domestic work remains some of the least protected work in our society; essential workers experiencing unsafe and uncertain conditions and sexual harassment and exploitation are often the rule rather the exception.
The pandemic has shown how essential care is to keeping our society going and how challenging it is for domestic workers to work with dignity and respect. It also made clear that it is beyond time for a national domestic workers bill of rights.
This month, we’re ramping up our campaign to pass a National Domestic Workers Bill of Rights to correct these injustices. If passed, this long overdue legislation would ensure rights and benefits for all domestic workers across the country.
Join the movement: sign the petition in support of a national domestic worker bill of rights.
We're also working on a state-level Bill of Rights in Washington, DC and one in New Jersey as part of our ongoing efforts to ensure domestic workers receive the protections they deserve at the federal and local levels.
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You're Invited: Making History and Building a Better Economy
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On March 24, 2022 at 1pm ET/ 10am PT, NDWA will join The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), The American Federation of Teachers (AFT), North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU), National Education Association (NEA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), and UNITE HERE as we honor the critical role of the women in our economy and explore the impact of a reconciliation package that will lift women workers and ensure an equitable economic recovery.
This virtual event will feature individual worker stories, union leaders, special guest appearances, and organizing actions to demand the investments and solutions needed to build a better economy for all. We hope you join us.
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Show Your Support for Ketanji Brown Jackson
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Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States. And it's about time.
America deserves a U.S. Supreme Court that represents all people.
It’s time for the historic confirmation of the FIRST Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court, so that we can bring the lived experience of being black and a woman to our justice system and put a few more cracks into that glass ceiling.
Jackson's confirmation hearings are expected to start soon. She will be under intense scrutiny, and the discussions leading up to and during her confirmation hearings are sure to be rife with racist and sexist undertones.
Sign our e-card today, offering support and words of encouragement to Ketanji Brown Jackson, as she carries forward the hopes of countless girls and women of color.
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Domestic Worker Women Making History
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In the summer of 1881, Black washerwomen calling themselves the Washing Society went on strike in Atlanta, Georgia to win higher uniform wages. They were joined by Black cooks, house servants, and nurses. Their strike lasted ten days.
Once the strike was called, the Washing Society grew from 20 to 3,000 members in only three weeks, and recruited Irish washerwomen as well. The local newspaper reported, “The washerwomen have society at their mercy…. The rebellion at Atlanta is no small affair to be laughed at.”
Read the rest of the story of the 1881 Washerwomen’s strike here.
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#ICYMI
in case you missed it
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With the introduction of a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in the DC Council, domestic workers in the nation’s capital are one step closer to winning historic change.
Click here to read the article.
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