Women and Work: Building Solidarity with America's Vulnerable Workers
In New York and looking for something feminist to do tonight? The Barnard Center for Research on Women is having an awesome event, Women and Work: Building Solidarity with America's Vulnerable Workers. (It's in conjunction with the National Domestic Workers Alliance Conference.)
Last year, BCRW hosted the first National Domestic Workers Alliance conference, bringing together domestic workers from across the country to develop a national agenda, and to discuss how best to educate the public and strategize to achieve fair labor standards for domestic workers, including a living wage, basic benefits, and health care. This year, we will once again host the National Domestic Workers Alliance for a conference that will discuss issues that are of particular importance to domestic workers on the East Coast. A largely invisible but supremely vital segment of the economy, domestic workers care for children and the elderly and perform domestic and housekeeping work, often making less than minimum wage and working long hours without paid sick days, vacation time, or other basic protections that most other workers in the U.S. enjoy, all the while making it possible for their employers to balance work and family. Support for domestic workers not only makes our society and economy more just, but also benefits employers who rely on the labor of others for childcare, elder care, and housekeeping in order to meet their work and family obligations. Please join BCRW and the National Domestic Workers Alliance to raise awareness on how to extend basic protections to all working women.
Monday, June 15, 7:00 pm
Held Auditorium
Barnard Hall, 3rd Floor
Barnard College
3009 Broadway (at 117th Street)
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For those who weren't able to make it, this was a really amazing event. It was incredible to discuss workers' rights with domestic workers themselves, who are doing amazing organizing work under very difficult circumstances... Also at the event, the BCRW showed a video-- which you can watch on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/Barnard-Center-for-Research-on-Women/65320602296 or on vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/5185988 --that features prominent feminists (Gloria Steinem! the Guerrilla Girls!) showing support for domestic workers. This video will give you plenty of reasons to stand in solidarity with domestic workers all across the country, so you should definitely check it out!