John,
Care and domestic workers are on the frontlines of this Administration's unprecedented deployment of armed federal law enforcement in our streets.
Masked federal agents are surrounding homes and cars, grabbing people, and taking them into custody. The deployment of federal agents and National Guard into our cities means arbitrary checkpoints, stops in public, and fear at every corner.
Countless domestic workers are afraid to go to work, take their kids to school, or get food from the store. Combined with rising unemployment and uncertain economic conditions, domestic workers are struggling.
These federal deployments to our cities are also an affront to local democracy, ignoring local laws passed by democratically elected city councils and Mayors to protect and serve their communities.
It takes a village to support each other in the face of these threats, and we’re doing everything we can to step up and rapidly support domestic workers who have lost work or are otherwise facing financial hardship during these times. But the need is massive – and so today we’re asking for your support.
When overall unemployment rises, and job creation slows, domestic workers are among the first to feel cuts as families scale back on spending and a lack of protections can lead to sudden loss of work.
On top of that, for weeks in DC we’ve gotten reports of care workers facing skyrocketing rideshare transportation costs as they feel scared to use public transit. An NDWA leader who works as a caregiver made the tough choice to quit his job caring for an older adult because he believes the risk of being detained when he travels into DC for work is too high.
Domestic workers – who are mostly women of color and immigrants – are the center of our communities and our family life, and a cornerstone of our economy. Yet, right now, many are in crisis.
Domestic and care workers' courage and labor keep cities like DC and Chicago running. Now it’s time for us to show up for them.
Our on-the-ground organizers and local partners have turned on a dime to scale our organizing and provide programming to support domestic workers facing income loss and intimidation.
Thank you for all you do,
The National Domestic Workers Alliance Team
Thank you for being a dedicated supporter of the National Domestic Workers Alliance!
We're working day and night to win respect, recognition, and labor rights and protections for the more than 2.5 million nannies, house cleaners, and homecare workers.
The majority of domestic workers sit at the center of some of our nation’s most decisive issues because of who they are and what they do: they are women – mostly women of color, immigrants, mothers, and low-wage workers. They are impacted by almost every policy affecting the future of our economy, democracy and country.
Domestic workers can lead us toward a new, inclusive vision for the future for all of us -- and your grassroots support is the fuel that can get us there.
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