PA Caregivers Invited to Free Training, Board Meet
The Pennsylvania Direct Care Workers Association invites all interested direct care workers in Pennsylvania to two free training sessions and a PaDCWA board meeting, to be held at Arden Courts in...
View ArticleWorking for Less than Minimum Wage
I’ve been doing home care work for 30-some years, and I love it. I tell everybody I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You have to have a heart to do this work. You can’t just do it for no reason. You...
View ArticleDCA Members, Allies Comment on Proposed Rule
Now that we’re about two-thirds of the way through the public comment period on the proposed rule to extend Fair Labor Standards Act protections to home care workers, the comments are beginning to give...
View ArticleSpeaking Up for the Home Care Work that I Love
On a brisk but beautiful morning early this month, I walked through Washington, D.C. to the building where my congressman, Thomas Marino, has his office. I was there, on behalf of the Direct Care...
View ArticleWhat I Heard at the Hearing on the Proposed Home Care Rule
Last Wednesday, the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on the proposed rule to grant basic labor protections to home care workers....
View ArticleWorker and Consumer Panel Grounds Talk at Home Care Conference
“We got bombarded afterwards by people who had more questions. They were very interested in what we had to say,” says home care worker Peg Ankney of the national Quality Work, Quality Care home care...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers Help Lead Movement for Paid Sick Days
Hundreds of thousands of direct care workers face an impossible choice when they get sick. Should they stay home to heal but lose wages and risk losing their jobs, or work sick and risk infecting the...
View ArticleWorker Rights Champion on Winning a Battle and Waging a War
This summer, National Employment Law Project (NELP) Legal Co-Director Catherine K. Ruckelshaus won the first class-action suit ever for home care workers in New York. Last week, Ruckelshaus talked to...
View ArticleAn Imperfect Solution to a Common Conundrum
I’m a home health aide for Home Instead Senior Care in Allentown, Pennsylvania. I will have been there 14 years in March. Before that, I worked in hospitals as a psychiatric aide. All told, I’ve been a...
View ArticlePaid Sick Days Movement Wins Major Victory in New York City
The movement to win paid sick leave for the nation’s workers won a major victory in New York City last week, when an agreement was reached on a bill that would require all employers in the city with at...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
“It’s way, way deeper than just a job,” says one of the home care workers in this article about going the extra mile to get to clients during this winter’s storms. Personal support workers in Illinois...
View ArticleSpeaking Up for the Profession I Love
About a month ago, DCA’s Jessica Brill Ortiz invited me to attend a March 25 advocacy day in Washington DC. The day was organized by Caring Across Generations, a movement of family members, workers,...
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