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Home-care workers call out the bosses: 'They take the money - cheap, cheap!'
Published May 24, 2008 7:38 AM
One hundred home-care workers protested at the entrance to two home-care
agencies, All Season and Prestige Care, in New York City’s Chinatown May
20. In spite of a heavy downpour, the spirited picket line was powerful.
With support from home-care members of the 1199SEIU union local present, the
agencies were attacked for paying only $7.15 an hour, without benefits.
Fighting for a union contract with 1199SEIU for more than a year, these mostly
Asian workers enjoyed the solidarity from the union’s home-care
workers—Haitian, Filipina, Latin@, Black, West Indian and Asian—who
chanted “Shame on you!” to the bosses.
The event’s flier, in two languages, described how “home-care
workers provide comfort and care to the elderly and disabled ... so they can
live in their homes with dignity. We are devoted caregivers, who deserve to be
able to care for ourselves and our families.”
—Report and photo by Anne Pruden
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