The Direct Care News 
For direct care workers and their allies September 25, 2012
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Making our Voices Heard on the National Day of Action
|  Determined to win home care workers the respect and basic labor protections they deserve, direct care workers and their allies converged on Capitol Hill last Friday for a National Day of Action. The advocates visited their members of Congress to deliver an urgent message: We must guarantee home care workers the right to minimum wage and overtime pay.
Meanwhile, hundreds of advocates across the nation delivered the same message in their home states, visiting members of Congress in their home offices, calling them on the phone, or signing petitions in support of the cause. Read more.
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National Day of Action: Workers Advocate for their Profession
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In her opening remarks last Friday morning in Washington, D.C., DCA National Advocacy Coordinator Jessica Brill Ortiz urged the advocates heading to Capitol Hill for the National Day of Action to speak from personal experience when they talked to legislators and their staff about why home care workers need Fair Labor Standards Act protections. "Your stories are very powerful," she said, "and you can tell them best."
Their stories aren't the only tool in these advocates' belts, but they are certainly one of the most powerful, as seen in these excerpts. Read more.
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