Videos
Here we speak to Enza Itri about her and her mother's experiences with 24 hour shifts in the home care industry and why we should fight for two 12 hour split shifts. Posted August 11, 2019.
A patient describes a dangerous situation due to her home care agency instructing workers not to respond during the nighttime portion of 24-hour shifts. Posted August 11, 2018.
On Wednesday July 11th, home attendants, patients, their families, women's groups and patient advocates, will speak out against the NYS Department of Labor (DOL), demanding an end to its emergency regulation that sanctions a 24-hour work day while only paying for 13 hours. Posted July 10, 2018
Lai Yee Chan, a home attendant for Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC), helped her patients day and night for over 15 years. During the day, she bathed and fed her patients. At night, she helped them get out of bed and go to the bathroom or get a drink of water. Posted July 21, 2016
Patients unite with home attendants to demand justice. Posted October 13, 2016.
Podcasts
Time to Say Goodbye: Working-class unity with organizer JoAnn Lum - December 28, 2020
Though COVID-19 has recently shone a light on horrifying working conditions in healthcare, nursing homes, restaurants, and delivery, JoAnn describes how “essential workers” have faced steadily worsening prospects for decades, and relays her members’ disappointment in the government response.
She also talks about how immigration law has been used to divide workers, and explains NMASS’s “Ain’t I a Woman” campaign, which is challenging the 24-hour workday for home care attendants.
Mini-cast: Break the Chains, Pt I (w/ Josephine Lee & Tosh Anderson) - October 24, 2019
Part I of our mini-cast series on undocumented workers and the fight to repeal the employers’ sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) and secure equal rights for all workers (in collaboration with the Break the Chains Alliance).