We have a dream that one day, all work
will be valued equally.
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United [DWU] is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all.
April 5, 2009: Farm Workers’ Rights, 70 Years Overdue. New York Times, Editorial.
April 5, 2009:
Farm Workers’ Rights, 70 Years Overdue. New York Times, Editorial.
An unfinished labor battle from the New Deal is being waged again. The goal is to win basic rights that farm and domestic workers were denied more than 70 years ago. . . . That inequality is a perverse holdover from the Jim Crow era.