TELL SPEAKER ADAMS TO END THE 24 HOUR WORKDAY!
JOIN WORKING PEOPLE FROM ACROSS NYC TO DEMAND AN END TO THE RACIST VIOLENCE OF THE 24 HOUR WORKDAY!
CALL ON SPEAKER ADAMS TO BRING THE NO MORE 24 ACT TO A VOTE!
RALLY, APRIL 12, 12PM AT CITY HALL PARK (BROADWAY AND PARK PLACE)
NYC City Council: Pass the No More 24 Act!
End racist 24-hour shifts for home attendants now!
AIW is proud and happy to support New York City Council Member Christopher Marte’s bill, the No More 24 Act, or Int. 0175-2022. No More 24 Act would end the 24-hour workday for home attendants, mandating that all 24-hour shifts be split into two 12-hour shifts. Additionally, it would cap the maximum number of hours worked for home attendants to 50 hours per week.
For years, home care agencies in New York City have forced thousands of workers, mostly immigrant women of color, to work 24-hour shifts often back-to-back for up to 72 consecutive hours. These brutal shifts cause irreparable physical, psychological, and social damage to home care workers. They also reduce the quality of care provided to vulnerable patients!
Elsewhere in the state, patients requiring round-the-clock care have their cases split by 2 or even 3 workers who each work 12- or 8-hour shifts. It is only in New York City, with its large immigrant underclass, that we find this proliferation of violent 24-hour shifts.
If passed into law, the No More 24 Act will not only protect workers’ health and work conditions in New York City, it would also ensure a sustainable home care industry. By ending grueling 24-hour shift assignments, the city would make home care industry jobs more desirable for prospective workers.
How you can help
If you live in NYC, visit bit.ly/no-more-24-act and contact your city council member to support the act.
Spread the word about the No More 24 Act, and urge city council members to support it.
Check the map below or this tracker to see if your city council member has signed on to end the inhumane 24-hour workday in New York City.
Call and email your council member to sign onto this much-needed legislation!
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