A follow-up to “How Four Black Women Changed Labor Organizing Forever”, this article captures the contract fight that followed and the genius and fortitude required to create one of the most important unions in U.S. history.
Care for children, the elderly and disabled is among the lowest-paying industries. Poo thinks federal investment could become reality.
“An adequate child program must be made available to every child of working mothers, regardless of race, creed or color.”
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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