National Domestic Workers Alliance
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National Domestic Workers Alliance is an advocacy organization promoting the rights of domestic workers in the United States. Founded in 2007, it made up of 60 subsidiary organizations around the country, along with thousands of individual members.[1] Their work advocates for low-income laborers in the context of broader social justice issues, including immigration reform, domestic violence, and more recently the #Metoo movement. [2]
Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.[3] In 2014, she was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, "a five-year grant given to the nation’s most exceptionally creative individuals, to fund her vibrant, worker-led movement to transform the working conditions and labor standards for private-household workers."[4]
References
- ^ "About Us | National Domestic Workers Alliance". www.domesticworkers.org. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
- ^ "Meeting rallies to 'stand with those whose backs are against the wall'". Retrieved 2018-03-25.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "53: The hidden workplaces all around us". Retrieved 2018-03-25.
- ^ "MacArthur genius Ai-jen Poo makes the economic case for listening". Quartz at Work. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
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