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Story USA: Charlottesville, white supremacists, and NDWA response
by IDWFED published Aug 11, 2017 last modified Aug 23, 2017 06:03 PM
"We are horrified by the events in Charlottesville, Virginia. Our thoughts and hearts are with the victims, their families and the residents of Charlottesville that are standing up and standing together against hate and violence."
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Story USA: Damayan Receives Prestigous Wellstone Award for Organizing to End Trafficking
by IDWFED published Apr 21, 2015 last modified Apr 22, 2015 05:33 PM
Trafficking of Filipino Domestic Workers Highlighted by Freedom Network USA
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Story USA: DC Court of Appeals rulled that home care workers are entitled to basic minimum wage
by IDWFED published Aug 22, 2015 last modified Aug 24, 2015 04:09 PM
Big news for 2 million homecare workers nationwide: federal court rules in favor of overtime & minimum wage!
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Story Troff document USA: Domestic worker labour leader said federal victory is in sight
by IDWFED published Aug 15, 2013 last modified Aug 29, 2015 03:53 PM
A key leader in the movement to raise labor standards for domestic workers expects a long-awaited federal rule change to soon become law. Ai-Jen Poo, who founded and directs the National Domestic Workers Alliance, told The Nation in an interview last week that the new regulations would be “one of the most significant victories for low-wage workers of this administration.” Citing supportive comments by Vice President Joe Biden at a June event celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and the confirmation of a new secretary of labor in July, Poo said she hopes to see the process completed this month.
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Story C header USA: Domestic workers at the Women's March
by IDWFED published Jan 21, 2017 last modified Mar 16, 2017 11:13 PM
On Saturday January 21, more than 100 domestic workers from all over the US marched, and IDWF took action along with millions of women all over the world to stand up to fear and hate, and create a future that cares for us all.
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Story text/texmacs USA: Domestic Workers call for bill of rights
by IDWFED published Feb 28, 2013 last modified Oct 06, 2015 06:30 PM
The Southwest Workers Union's Domestic Workers in Action group wants the city to adopt a “San Antonio Domestic Worker Bill of Rights,” which would provide nannies, maids and home care providers the ability to negotiate salaries and workloads. It also would give workers the right to take meals and breaks, to be eligible for workers' compensation and to receive sick time.
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Story USA: Domestic workers demand health insurance
by IDWFED published Apr 18, 2012 last modified Nov 25, 2015 04:53 PM
Within the framework of the revision of a new labor contract, domestic workers went to the traditional lavatory of feet, as Jesus did with the Prophets, in correspondence with the celebration of Christian Easter. One of the most important demands that the employees pertaining to the organization “Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice of San Diego County (ICWJ)”, is regarding the health insurance. And it was indeed in this special ceremony that took place in the Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, where employees and leaders expressed the demand for a collective treaty of just work.
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Story Troff document USA: Domestic Workers Deserve Protection - Hold Diplomats Like Khobragade to Account
by IDWFED published Dec 18, 2013 last modified Jan 11, 2016 09:43 PM
Last Tuesday, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney announced the arrest of Devyani Khobragade, a prominent Indian diplomat, for allegedly falsifying documents related to the domestic worker she employed through an A-3 visa, who has come forward with details about low pay and poor labor conditions at Khobragade’s home.
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Story USA: Domestic workers in New York created wrote poetry on walls
by IDWFED published Jun 20, 2014 last modified May 25, 2015 06:52 PM
A woman’s work is never done—it just gets passed on to someone else. For the nannies, housekeepers, health aides and other caregivers in New York’s middle- and upper-class households, work means carrying others’ burdens: tricked-out strollers and spattered baby food, damp diapers, and dry cleaning—or the family secrets tucked behind a genteel exterior. On Sunday, Christine Yvette Lewis captured a bit of the warped edifice of American domesticity and colored it with memories of her native Trinidad. Taking a paintbrush to the wall of an old cottage, she depicted an island house from her homeland, and below, scrawled a scene from the adopted home where she works today: “Push Pale Pampered Baby in Ornate Pram Along Pompous Avenue … A Tale of Two Cities.”
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Story USA: Domestic workers lead surprise march on home of millionaire Elyse Slaine
by IDWFED published Oct 30, 2014 last modified Dec 09, 2014 04:09 PM
A combative band of domestic workers, backed up by an actual band of musicians from the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, noisily arrived at the doorstep of millionaire socialite Elyse Slaine at 925 Park Ave for a surprise visit. They were led by Filipina domestic worker Marichu De Sesto, who for 15 years cooked and cleaned for Slaine, working long and unpaid overtime hours, only to be abruptly kicked to the curb in May when she requested a day off for a medical appointment.
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