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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Ai-jen Poo: Caring for the Caregivers [Watch (HLS stream): Ai-jen Poo: Caring for the Caregivers](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Y91ff0rt.m3u8) (6:35)  _Published 2012-04-18. Ai-jen Poo leads a nationwide movement of nannies, housekeepers and care workers to gain long overdue workers' rights_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:24 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Bonnie Castillo and Ai-jen Poo | TIME100 Talks](/video/w1uIFPRI/) ### Bonnie Castillo and Ai-jen Poo | TIME100 Talks [TIME100 Talks with Activists Ai-jen Poo and Mónica Ramírez](/video/yNySgkhj/) ### TIME100 Talks with Activists Ai-jen Poo and Mónica Ramírez [Most Influential: Ai-jen Poo](/video/roMQgTMf/) ### Most Influential: Ai-jen Poo --- ## Transcript [ FOREIGN ] [ MUSIC ] Domestic workers are the most visible , invisible work force. Each and everyone one of us is connected to somebody , who worked as a domestic worker, or who does today do care work. [ FOREIGN ] Domestic workers are excluded from almost every major labor law, with the exception of minimum wage protections. So simply, educating employers and workers that they have the right to minimum wage, was not address the many , many kinds of vulnerabilities that domestic workers were facing on the job. [ MUSIC ] My name is Ai- jen Poo, and I'm the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. And, we are an alliance of 35 local organizations of nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers for the elderly, in 19 cities and 11 states around the country. Ever since, I was little, I was really influenced by my mother and my grandmother. Both of whom are very strong women. Who, really valued all kinds of work, including the work that it takes to raise families. But, that work wasn't valued by other people, and so my mother always struggled. And, I realize that, so much of the unfinished business of the women's movement is really about bringing respect and dignity to this work. My name is Barbara Young, and I'm , uh, national organizer. [ CROSSTALK ] Before, joining the organization, I didn't even know, I had a voice, you know, to represent myself, furthermore to represent domestic workers in this country. Most of the people that doing the care work today are immigrant women of color. This is one of the things that I think that.. People, look down upon. [ MUSIC ] One of the first cases that I worked on , was somebody who was unpaid literally for 15 years, and was told that her salary, her wages, were being sent back home to her home country. I've heard stories, multiple stories, of women who were sexually harassed. Physical assault. [ MUSIC ] And then, there are the everyday cases. We, we see domestic workers everywhere and do outreach , and talk to them and ask them about their experiences and their stories. But a lot , also happened through word of mouth. So once, the word got out, that there were these meetings and these classes and these opportunities for women to come together, [ SOUND ] it started catching. [ SOUND ] I was, so much into the work of organizing. I would walk with a whole, handful of newsletters everyday to my job. [ MUSIC ] We organized a convention. And, over 200 workers came together. Speaking seven different languages. We had simultaneous interpretation in seven languages. And they came up with a list , of what it would actually mean to have , dignity and respect on the job. And it's from that list, that we developed legislation, that we then took to Albany, and eventually, seven years later, became the domestic workers bill of rights, became law. [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] [ CROSSTALK ] Hello, you made it. [ CROSSTALK ] The domestic worker speakout was really exciting. It was the , coming together of 100s of people in southern California, to speak out for the domestic workers bill of rights. [ NOISE ] And now, if you are ready to build this movement to win in California and in every other state and around the world, let me here you make some noise right now. Woo! [ NOISE ] It's a particularly important campaign because there's so many domestic workers in California. At least 200, 000. And because it would be as the second state to enact this law, it helps us build national momentum. [ FOREIGN ] [ SOUND ] Some of our members started asking for training in elder care. And what we realized was domestic workers are at the front lines of this tremendous demographic shift in this country. Where, on the one hand, immigrant communities are growing, and on the other hand, the country is aging. You can see it in the way that domestic workers are providing support for American families today. And, that's only gonna increasingly be the case going into the future as our need for care grows. Look at a person like [ UNKNOWN ]. She herself was never a domestic worker, yet the love For organizing people and bringing people together at this level, [ CROSSTALK ] I was there in those church basements in the beginning , when it was just you know eight, seven women coming together and sharing their stories and to go from those days to today when we have 35 affiliates in 19 cities in 11 states and And statewide campaigns, and international victories, and national campaigns. It just feels, like it's such a blessing to have been able to bear witness and be a part of history in the making, especially women making history. 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