This Black History Month, we invite our supporters to look at the beautiful timeline “A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing” created by the National Domestic Workers Alliance in collaboration with activist scholars Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, and Diana Sierra Becerra. We would like to draw attention specifically to the role that Black domestic workers played in the Civil Rights and Freedom Movement in the United States…

The Brazilian Worker Center conducted a study on the effectiveness of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, carried out in partnership with the Boston College Law School Civil Rights Clinic. The report on this study, “Making It Work for Workers: A Study on the Efficacy of the Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights” was presented in January…

In January, a group of ten domestic workers completed a four-session leadership development course with MCDW, “Learning to be Leaders.” Many were already taking on leadership roles in MCDW member groups like the Brazilian Worker Center and the Dominican Development Center, while others were completely new to organizing and learning about domestic worker rights…

This January we held a grassroots fundraiser to support the essential peer-to-peer outreach of domestic worker leaders. Worker leaders earn $25 per hour to do outreach in the community, where they can speak with other domestic workers about the Massachusetts Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. Our goal was to raise enough to support 200 hours of this outreach ($5000)…

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