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Justice Revelations August 2011 E-newsletter |
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Stories
move you. Numbers wow you. DataCenter’s National Domestic Worker Survey is bringing stories and numbers together to create lasting social change for a workforce that has been isolated and abused for far too long. This month for the Domestic Workers Corner, we bring you several stories with one number in common: 200,000. This is the never-before-quantified number of domestic workers in California--a number that DataCenter helped reveal. Look for it in each of the media below.
Meet Today's Help: In honor of newly released film The Help, chronicling nannies in Mississippi in the 1960s, the National Domestic Worker Alliance released this short video about nannies and housekeepers in today’s society. SF Chronicle: Two domestic workers shared their knowledge loud and clear in their San Francisco Chronicle Letters to the Editor on August 5th. Assembly
Bill 889 News: What’s going on with the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
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While these standard labor practices are recognized in many workplaces, there are still employers who regularly and unapologetically refuse to recognize the law. As a result, hundreds of employees endure abusive working conditions each year in the City of San Francisco alone.
However, these employees now have a chance at justice. And in your support
of DataCenter, you had a hand in elevating the voices of workers so they
can demand that chance. On August 2, 2011, San Francisco city officials
enacted the Wage Theft Prevention Ordinance, which strengthens the city's
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For
the past two years, DataCenter has provided training support and capacity
building to Khmer Girls
in Action (KGA) in Long Beach, California that trains young Southeast
Asian women to be "relevant social justice organizers who can respond
to the immediate needs of the community." It is organizations like KGA
who empower immigrants and 2nd generation immigrant youth to voice their
concerns and be justice leaders in their communities. |
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