NEW YORK - For ten years, community labor activists have been battling the 24-hour workday, where home care workers clock in for a 24-hour shift but are only paid for 13 of those hours. They are preyed upon by organizations that claim to protect the most vulnerable in their community, but these workers refuse to give up. According to organizers, many, if not most, are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay. Their fightback looks like pressuring elected officials, weekly pickets, and even hunger strikes.
Hear from the workers themselves, and the activists who support them, why their struggle is necessary. New York City cannot claim to be pro-labor while immigrant women of color are working 24-hour shifts for less than minimum wage.