This is the first in a series of updates about the campaign DCA and our allies are waging to win the right to minimum wage and overtime pay for home care workers.
Click on the links below to read recent features and editorials in favor of giving home care workers these basic rights. You can help by leaving a comment on one or two to show your support. Agencies can afford the overtime
"They already charge high rates to the clients that we serve, and the clients know that what they're being charged is very different from what the people that take care of them are being paid," says home care worker Joan Leah
(and DCA Voices Institute graduate) of agencies that claim they can't afford to pay overtime in a
Miami Herald feature.
We can't wait any longer
This is America, isn't it?
"This is America, isn't it? We do some of the most important work a person can do. We are helping to improve human lives, and we cannot even afford to feed our families. That's just wrong," says home care worker (and DCA board chair) Tracy Dudzinski on the
Health Care for America Now blog.
Home care is a civil right
Home care is a civil right, but poor wages can make workers hard to come by, says an editorial in
The Tennessean.Family caregivers need reliable help
"One way to reduce stress on family caregivers is to strengthen the paid caregiving workforce," says a
MomsRising blog post.
