North America/Fighting for our rights
USA -- Domestic worker organizations around the country are organizing activities to advance domestic worker rights, kicking off on Monday March 8th (International Women’s Day), and ending on May 1st (International Worker’s Day). Local events taking place throughout the United States include press conferences, marches, workshops, panel discussions, and a national pledge drive for employers to commit to respecting and upholding domestic worker rights.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is organizing to improve the living and working conditions of domestic workers; win respect and justice from employers and government for exploited domestic workers; change the racism and sexism that has led to the persistent devaluing of this labor so that dignity of domestic work is honored; end the exclusion of domestic workers from recognition and protection; build a movement of migrant workers to fight the labor displacement and exploitation created by globalization; and continue a brave legacy of resistance by supporting movement-building among domestic workers and other communities and workers in struggle. For more information, contact
www.nationaldomesticworkeralliance.org.
ACHIEVING LEGAL PROTECTION -- U.S.-based Domestic Workers United is poised to win passage of the country's first Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights in New York state. Read more in The Nation magazine.
