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WASHINGTON—Filling a gap that went unmentioned 60 years ago, more than three dozen woman activists, including union leaders, spoke out for jobs, workers’ rights, civil rights, voting rights, and women’s rights at a conference the Poor People’s Campaign called.
WASHINGTON—Saying the rest of the nation’s workforce depends on available, affordable child care and elder care—and living wages for their caregivers—top union leaders rallied behind urging Congress to enact comprehensive legislation to achieve that goal. Gesturing to the U.S.
WASHINGTON—The ravages of the coronavirus pandemic and the dependence of all of us on “essential” workers such as grocery stockers, nurses, home health care workers and truckers woke the entire nation—including them—to their value, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler says.
WASHINGTON —The National Domestic Workers Alliance is taking its drive for a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights national, combining an online petition with extensive testimony before sympathetic Democrats on the House Workforce Protections Subcommittee.
Home care workers have long been excluded from the protections that other workers enjoy—how could health care change if they weren't?