Thread by @MaryKayHenry

The Trump administration just released a rule that will affect roughly 800,000 #homecare workers, telling them what they can and cannot do with their own wages. Please follow along as I explain why this outrageous rule will hurt all of us. 1/

9 of every 10 #homecare workers is a woman and more than half are Black or brown. Women who have been fighting together in their union for decades to come out of the shadows and to win living wages, training & basic benefits like paid sick time. 2/
vox.com/policy-and-pol…

The rule is a transparent, political attempt to make it harder for #homecare workers to speak up together and as a result, for seniors and people with disabilities to find and keep consistent quality home care. And this demand is growing every day! 3/
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What it does: The rule aims to deny home care workers the choice to use payroll deduction to contribute to their healthcare, their union or even transportation costs with their own wages. The same system many Americans use at work. 4/

This is not new. This country has a long history of denying Black and brown women fair wages, basic protections and labor rights, and workers have joined together to overcome it. 5/
teenvogue.com/story/black-wo…

For decades, wealthy special interests who want to rig the rules have been telling working women, and especially working Black and brown women, what they can and cannot do. No more. 6/
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We’re going to challenge this rule in court and we are going to keep on caring because everyone —Black, white or brown— should be able to choose to be part of a strong union to improve our work, our lives and our communities. 7/
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Together, home care workers are raising wages to ensure they can care for their own families. We’ve won $15 in CA, CT, IL, MA, OR and WA, and workers are calling for it in MN. As this NY Times story notes, a $15 wage can change lives. 8/ nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Home care workers are raising standards for training in CA, IL, MA, OR and WA in this emotionally and physically demanding profession and transforming home care services to help keep our loved ones out of hospitals when they can recover at home. 9/
healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hbl…

And home care workers help so many family members do the things they need to do—get to work, spend time with their children, grocery shop. “Care work makes all other work possible” as @AiJen likes to say. 10/

We’re also facing a home care workforce shortage and turnover as high as 60%. By joining together & improving working conditions, workers are making sure these are good union jobs that can sustain a family and help solve this shortage. 11/
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Over 500,000 home care workers have joined SEIU and won higher wages, basic benefits and training. Thousands more home care workers live with hope they too can transform the work they do. 12/
Union wins: drive.google.com/file/d/1Rn85qZ…

Anti-worker special interests who rig the rules in Washington want to devalue home care as if it’s not real work. I don’t know of anything more real than providing care for an aging parent or grandparent, a veteran or a person with a disability. 13/

Home care workers inspire me. They inspire you. And we won’t be stopped. It’s time to #RiseUpHomeCare. Help us! Speak up for quality home care. Join us on seiu.org/RiseUpHomeCare