We’re Essentially All Becoming Domestic Workers

Josh Eidelson talked to Ai-jen Poo, who directs the National Domestic Workers Alliance, about what’s going on right now in organizing for care workers and other domestic workers. It’s great. I learned some things. Ai-jen Poo is awesome. Our current labor sitch is not:

“As more and more people become temporary, part-time or contracted, nobody knows who their real boss is, no one has collective bargaining, no one even knows what bargaining is, and no one works in a workplace where bargaining is actually feasible. We’re essentially all becoming domestic workers.”

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