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In the News:
Victoria
laboral para trabajadores domésticos - Catalina Jaramillo,
El Diario NY
For
Nannies, Hope for Workplace Protection - Russ Buettner,
The New York Times
NY
Lawmakers Approve Domestic Worker Rights - Michael Virtanen,
Associated Press
Congratulations
to Domestic Workers United, for the passage of the Domestic
Workers' Bill of Rights in the NY State Legislature! On June
1st, the NY State Legislature passed a bill that provides collective
bargaining rights and labor protection for domestic workers.
If Gov. Patterson signs the bill into law, it will be the first
of its kind in the country.
Hardly even captured in the US Census, domestic workers struggle
to substantiate their very existence. Domestic Workers United
(DWU) of New York City partnered with DataCenter in 2003 to
illuminate the working and living conditions of an industry
that takes place behind closed doors. The partnership produced
the unprecedented report, "Home
Is Where the Work Is"(2006, PDF), which detailed exploitative
conditions and demographics. Co-authored by DWU and DataCenter,
"Home Is Where the Work Is" continues to be one of
the most authoritative sources of data on this largely invisible
and vulnerable workforce, and has effectively been backed by
the voices of the domestic workers in making data-driven arguments
for their policy solutions. Equally important, domestic workers
continue to utilize tools of research effectively in strengthening
their voices in shifting policy and making change.
Today, domestic workers, along with the
National Domestic
Worker Alliance, are in the forefront of launching this
powerful and winning model of DataCenter's research capacity-building
on a national scale.
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