Chinatown Home Care Workers Continue to Fight 24-Hour Workdays
On Feb. 26, more than 100 home care workers were attacked by the NYPD and seven were arrested at a protest outside a fancy Wall Street fundraiser for the Chinatown non-profit that controls their working conditions. The workers from the Ain’t I A Woman campaign say that the Chinese-American Planning Council, or CPC, owes them $90 million in back pay. The focus of the protesters’ ire is a law that allows their employer to assign them 24-hour home care shifts for which they only receive 13 hours of pay. We speak with Vicki Niu, a volunteer with the Ain’t I a Woman Campaign and Alberto Neri with the Youth Against Sweatshops. They were both present at the gala protest and have been organizing the home care workers and other workers to end the 24 hour shift.