Caregivers deserve a hand!

Caregivers and home care aides play an essential role in our health care system, but their work often goes unrecognized and undervalued. Caregiving can be difficult and isolating—especially during a pandemic—but caregivers don’t need to face these challenges alone. There are a number of organizations advocating for and providing support to home care aides and other domestic workers…

Pilipino Workers Center
The Pilipino Workers Center aims to secure the dignity and safety of the Pilipinx community in Southern California and build labor leaders in the domestic worker industry. Founded in 1997, Pilipino Workers Center (PWC) is a non-profit that organizes the low-wage Pilipino community in Southern California to demand better living and working conditions.

California Domestic Worker Coalition
Founded in 2006, the California Domestic Worker Coalition (CDWC) is the state’s leading voice for the more than 300,000 domestic workers in California. The CDWC is a domestic worker led, statewide alliance of community-based organizations, domestic employers, worker centers, labor unions, faith groups, students, and policy advocates. We’ve come together to confront a history of exclusion to basic labor protections and to advance the rights and dignity of domestic workers and their communities across the state.

National Domestic Workers Alliance
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of domestic workers in the United States. Founded in 2007, NDWA works for respect, recognition, and inclusion in labor protections for domestic workers, the majority of whom are immigrants and women of color.

Damayan
Damayan empowers low-wage workers to fight for their labor, health, gender, and immigrant rights. Established in 2002, our purpose is to build leadership at the grassroots level to eliminate labor trafficking, fight labor fraud and wage theft, and to demand fair labor standards to achieve economic and social justice.