Our campaign culminated with the passage of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights in 2010. This statewide legislation recognizes the domestic workforce and establishes basic labor standards. The first law of its kind, the bill provides expanded over-time pay, protection
Domestic workers continue to organize and continue to act for the sector’s collective interest, calling for state, national international policies that will enable them to achieve fair labor standards, recognition and full social stature.
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The report details recommendations to reform NYCHA’s systems and services to give LEP Asian tenants genuine, meaningful access to critical information about their housing, and to allow them to participate more fully in the broader NYCHA community.
This report details strategies used by different kinds of community organizing groups to achieve policy wins and accomplishments.
Summary The Northwest Queens Financial Education Network, composed of CDP, Chhaya CDC, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and Queens Community House (QCH) worked on this report, which is based on 253 surveys. It explores how immigrants in Northwest Queens save
Summary CDP released this report in partnership with the Employment Law Unit at the Legal Aid Society and the National Center for Law and Economic Justice. The report highlights immense problems that workers in New York face in collecting the
The first portion of this report documents the best practices and challenges of the Eldercare Dialogues, a two-year long process to bring together elders, direct care workers, and their family members. The second half of the report is a toolkit
Today the Lower East Side has numerous communitybased organizations (CBOs) that serve the needs of residents. This robust community infrastructure played a critical role in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Hours after the storm ended, and well before government
