***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contacts: Alexandra Early, alex@cadomesticworkers.org California Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC) 617-816-4260 W Domestic Workers are Frontline Workers and Deserve Health and Safety Now! CA Domestic Workers Launch Campaign to Pass SB 1257, the Health and Safety for All Workers Act! Three weeks after Governor Gavin Newsom announced a shelter in place order for California,…
Truthout, By Sheila Bapat Lee Plaza, 60, is a caregiver for a 90-year-old woman in Los Angeles. She works 12 hours per day, six days per week helping her client shower, groom, eat and perform other basic day to day functions. Needless to say, Plaza cannot perform this job remotely. “I take a bus to…
Over the course of the last two years, the domestic worker and employer leaders of the California Domestic Workers Coalition have worked tirelessly to lead the campaign to create an Education and Outreach Program within the Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement. We are overjoyed to announce that yesterday, June 27, 2019, Governor Newsom signed the…
***FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*** Contact: Megan Whelan, megan@cadomesticworkers.orgCalifornia Domestic Workers Coalition (CDWC)(415) 993-4964 June 28, 2019 Domestic Workers Win Landmark Program to Strengthen Labor Rights Compliance in California After a multi-year grassroots campaign, domestic workers and employers of the California Domestic Workers Coalition have won the resources within the California State Budget to establish a groundbreaking outreach…