Worker Rights Champion on Winning a Battle and Waging a War
This summer, National Employment Law Project (NELP) Legal Co-Director Catherine K. Ruckelshaus won the first class-action suit ever for home care workers in New York. Last week, Ruckelshaus talked to...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleWhy Nursing Homes Need More of Us CNAs
I’m a CNA at a nursing home in the Bronx, where I work the night shift. I’ve been working here for 12 years, and for eight years before that I did home care. I love being a caregiver, but I wish we had...
View ArticleGrowing the Movement in 2013
As I look back on all that DCA has accomplished in 2012, I can’t wait to see what we’ll get done in 2013. I truly believe that the growing wave of aging baby boomers is about to meet up with the...
View ArticleReception to Honor the Work of Leonila Vega
Click to donate or RSVP. To sponsor the reception, click to contact David Ward. A Special Thank You to Our Sponsors! AARP AFSCME American Society on Aging ANCOR The ANCOR Foundation The Atlantic...
View ArticlePaid Sick Days Movement Wins Major Victory in New York City
The movement to win paid sick leave for the nation’s workers won a major victory in New York City last week, when an agreement was reached on a bill that would require all employers in the city with at...
View ArticleNew York City Workers Win Paid Sick Days
New York City workers gained significant sick day rights last week, following the New York City Council’s June 27th 47-4 vote to override Mayor Bloomberg’s previous veto of the Paid Sick Time Act. As a...
View ArticleLet’s Get Direct Care Workers Covered!
DCA is thrilled to announce its new initiative, Get Direct Care Workers Covered. Thanks to the generous support of the New York State Health Foundation, Get Direct Care Workers Covered will help direct...
View ArticleOne Day to Open Enrollment: Get Direct Care Workers Covered!
Download our press release. Direct Care Alliance is thrilled to be joining dozens of community-based organizations across New York State in a campaign to help direct care workers and others get...
View ArticleDCA’s Voices Institute Goes to Brooklyn
What an amazing group of direct care workers I got to meet on September 25 and 26, at a Voices Institute training for CenterLight Best Choice Home Care in Brooklyn, New York! Direct Care Alliance...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
“It’s way, way deeper than just a job,” says one of the home care workers in this article about going the extra mile to get to clients during this winter’s storms. Personal support workers in Illinois...
View ArticleGet Direct Care Workers Covered: A Home Care Aide Relieved to Have Health...
Beverly, a home health aide in New York City, usually works 5 days a week for 7 hours a day, but her hours—and therefore her pay—fluctuate, as they do for most home care workers. At just $10.58 an...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
Watch HBO’s Paycheck to Paycheck, the story of CNA and single mother Katrina Gilbert, free of charge on the Shriver Report website. A brief on the problems caused by unstable work schedules–like those...
View ArticleGetting the Care I Need So I Can Provide Care
Valrie Broughton is a home health aide living in New York City. She started working in home care in 2000 in her native Jamaica. After getting health insurance with the help of our Get Direct Care...
View ArticleHelping Obamacare Work for Direct Care Workers
DCA’s Get Direct Care Workers Covered initiative has been helping direct care workers and other low-income workers in New York state get affordable health coverage through the Affordable Care Act (aka...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
DCA’s Jessica Brill Ortiz will be one of the participants at a May 8 Capitol Hill briefing on long-term care hosted by OWL – the Voice of Midlife and Older Women. Jessica will explain the importance of...
View ArticleObamacare Gave Me Back My Medicaid Coverage
Dorothy Lee is a home health aide living in New York City who signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare), with the help of our Get Direct Care Workers...
View ArticleDirect Care Workers in the News
A new rule proposed by US DOL would raise the minimum wage for VA hospital CNAs and other federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. A new guidance and updated fact sheet from U.S. Department of Labor help...
View ArticleHome Care Workers Rising
The following photos and stories are from the Voices Institute graduates, several of whom were also DCA board members, who represented Direct Care Alliance and their profession at the Home Care Workers...
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