How Four Black Women Changed Homecare Organizing Forever
The Forge
Forty years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.
Labor Leader AI-Jen Poo Confronts ’The Biggest Driver of Economic Inequality That Nobody Talks About.
Capital & Main
Care for children, the elderly and disabled is among the lowest-paying industries. Poo thinks federal investment could become reality.
UE Fought for Child Care as “Infrastructure” as Far Back as WWII
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of American (UE)
“An adequate child program must be made available to every child of working mothers, regardless of race, creed or color.”
California’s Homecare Crisis: Raising Wages is Key to the Solution
UC Berkeley Labor Center
Unless California’s homecare crisis is addressed and workers’ wages are increased, the elderly and people with disabilities will not get the care they require, homecare workers will continue to live in poverty, and the public cost of long-term care will increase.
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Organizing The Organized Is Now Key To Union Survival
Counter Punch
Virtually all labor organizations face the expanded challenge of recruiting and maintaining members in already unionized workplaces where the decision to provide financial support for the union has, for better or worse, become voluntary.
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Homecare Workers Union Pulls Challenge Of Fresno Co. Election Won By SEIU
The Sacramento Bee
A challenge to a bitterly fought election for 10,000 Fresno County homecare workers has ended with the withdrawal of a complaint that was set for a hearing Wednesday.
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