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Homecare workers fight back

Published May 17, 2012 9:32 PM

Homecare workers, members of Service Employees 1199, and their supporters protested in Brooklyn, N.Y., on May 9 as part of continuing actions against the home­care agency bosses who arbitrarily cut the workers’ contractual benefits on Jan. 1. Among the benefits taken away were vacation days, sick time, shift differential pay and medical benefits. These low-paid, mostly women workers, chanted, “We’re health care workers fighting back!”