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# Why Your Nanny Deserves a Raise

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## Video: Why Your Nanny Deserves a Raise

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_Published 2013-11-26. Activist Ai-jen Poo was on the TIME 100 list in 2012 when her organization fought for the rights of nannies and house cleaners in California. Today they can claim victory in that state and have their sites on the rest._


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### Ai-jen Poo: Caring for the Caregivers

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## Transcript

[ MUSIC ]. [ LAUGH ] So we have a situation in this country where the workers that we count on to care for our families everyday can't actually take care of their own. Because they are earning poverty wages, are excluded from some of the most basic labor protections, and are incredibly vulnerable in today's economy. I think of women like Thelma Reta, who has been caring for an elderly couple around the clock for $ 35 per day and that has been legal this entire time. When it comes to protection from discrimination and harassment or over time or all kinds of other basic rights that other workers can take for granted.

Domestic workers actually are highly vulnerable and don't have those protections. Inside of a broader vision for the future of care in this country. My name is Ai- jen Poo and I'm the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. Our work has been about bringing those women together and advocating for change in policy, advocating for solutions, creating educational opportunities to improve the quality of these jobs. Really trying to transform this work from work that's highly vulnerable to work that's a real pathway to opportunity and a good job that you can take pride in. [ FOREIGN ]. For seven years, domestic workers in California have been advocating for the passage of legislation, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

To make sure that they're protected under basic provisions in the California State Labor Law, like overtime. [ FOREIGN ]. [ FOREIGN ] If you are a [ INAUDIBLE ] please stand up, make some noise right now. [ NOISE ] California is the state with the most domestic workers in the country, and there was a big town hall in Los Angeles, where workers from around the state gathered to rally for this new legislation. [ INAUDIBLE ] But a victory in California sets off a national chain of momentum where other states will be forced to take us on. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ]. [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] Just this past September the Governor of California signed the bill into law.

Now every domestic worker in the state is protected under overtime protections equal to other workers in he state which will be absolutely transformative. And the Department of Labor finalized a regulatory change that would essentially bring 1. 8 million home care workers and care givers under minimum wage and overtime protections who had been previously excluded. So that's just millions of lives transformed. [ MUSIC ] [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] Bebe. [ LAUGH ] [ MUSIC ]

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