Join us on Wednesday, December 11, 11am
to protest against Governor Hochul’s interference in labor law enforcement!
Location: NYS Department of Labor, 55 Hanson Place in Brooklyn NYC
Why protest Hochul on Dec 11?
- NY Supreme Court ruled that Hochul’s Department of Labor broke the law by dropping home care workers’ wage theft cases!
- Kathy Hochul, not only did NOTHING to help recover stolen wages for workers of New York, but actually awarded a $7B/year government contract to the worst home care agency Chinese-American Planning Council, who robbed woman-of-color home care workers of more than $90M. That’s a slap in the face of all working people and law-abiding small businesses!
- Chinese-American Planning Council spearheaded the practice of 24-hour workdays and illegally paying only 13 hours. Its former board chair Jenny Low worked as a director of Governor Hochul’s office during the time Hochul’s Department of Labor mysteriously dropped all the cases of CPC workers and workers of other agencies. While many home care agencies have started paying back stolen wages and stopping the inhumane 24-hour workdays, CPC continues to refuse to pay back!
New Yorkers must join workers of all trades to demand an IMMEDIATE stop to interference in law enforcement now!
Read home care workers’ open letter to Governor Hochul, which she has made no offer to resolve:
Dear Governor Hochul,
We are home care workers who have worked 24-hour shifts for many years, representing thousands of our sisters in writing this letter to you. Recently, the New York State Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Labor had violated the law and ordered it to enforce the law immediately by pursuing our stolen wages. Therefore, we demand that you immediately stop interfering with the Department of Labor’s investigation into our cases to ensure that we are promptly paid our owed wages!
For many years, we have cared for severely ill patients who urgently need care. We worked 24-hour shifts, staying awake for several consecutive days, yet we only received 13 hours of pay. The Department of Labor had calculated and investigated the back wages for many of our cases, but we have yet to receive our hard-earned money! To make matters worse, you hired the former board chair of the most notorious sweatshop, the Chinese-American Planning Council, and selected CPC to be New York City’s monopoly coordinator of the CDPAP program. This has caused public outrage in the NYC community!
We have decided to unite with workers from all industries and hold a large demonstration at the New York State Department of Labor at 11 AM on December 11th to demand justice and our hard-earned money for the millions of New Yorkers! Therefore, we are writing to urge you to stop interfering with law enforcement and ensure that we are compensated immediately!
NYS Assembly Member Ron Kim and 32 other NYS and NYC elected officials have signed onto a letter to the Department of Labor
The letter urges the DOL to enforce the law to ensure workers get their hard-earned wages! Read it below and check out which elected officials have already signed on! CONTACT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS TO ASK THEM TO SIGN ON!
What can you do?
Join outreach!
Join workers of all industries flyering across NYC. See calendar below for the schedule and call 212-358-0295 to let us know you’re coming!
Ask your elected official to sign the letter!
Call your elected officials and ask them to join Ron Kim and 25+ other elected representatives in urging the Department of Labor to enforce the labor law.
Donate
Home attendants have been fighting for 10 years to stop 24-hour workdays. We need everyone’s support to make known to the whole world their stories and determined fight to end the violence!
Help plan and spread the word!
Contact us at 212-358-0295
