Soñamos con el día en que todos los trabajas
serán igualmente valorados.
Fundada en el 2000, Trabajadoras de Casa Unidas (o Domestic Workers United — DWU por sus siglas en inglés) es una organización de trabajadoras caribeñas, latinas y africanas que laboran en el cuidado de niños, como acompañantes de ancianos, y en limpieza. Nos organizamos para tener poder, respeto, normas justas de trabajo, y ayudar a desarrollar un movimiento para acabar con la explotación y la opresión de todos.
July 2, 2010 - "Domestic Workers in New York Win First-Ever Job Protections" Labor Notes
Domestic Workers in New York Win First-Ever Job Protections
July 2, 2010
Tiffany Ten Eyck
Domestic workers in New York have won historic changes to the state’s labor law to include protections for their jobs. Final votes on Thursday ended weeks of wrangling between state Assembly and Senate leaders and Governor David Paterson, who said he would sign the bill.
The law guarantees domestic workers time-and-half pay for more than 40 hours and a day off each week, along with protection under worker compensation and anti-discrimination law and access to unemployment insurance. The compromise bill won’t include original demands for paid sick and vacation days and advance notice of termination. But three paid days off were granted after a year of service.