The Caring Across Generations campaign is building a new movement to transform long-term care in our country. Our movement represents the families who struggle to find and afford quality care to meet the basic needs of their loved ones, care workers who often lack the protections of basic labor laws, and consumers who want to live with dignity and independence in their homes.
In partnership with the National Domestic Workers Alliance and over 200 other organizations, we are bringing together seniors, people with disabilities, working families, and direct care workers to build a caring majority and reshape the caregiving industry through public town halls, public education, policy solutions, celebrity engagement and worker organizing.
Check out more resources below or visit the Caring Across Generations website to learn more.
Delegation from Vermont Workers' Center/Jobs with Justice meets with Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Last week was an exhilarating week for Caring Across Generations! In the lead up to Mothers’ Day, we asked you and thousands of others to honor mothers everywhere by taking action to make quality care available to everyone. And together, we did just that!
Immigrant care workers support millions of our country’s seniors and people with disabilities. Consumers uniquely understand that a roadmap to citizenship for the careworkers they rely on. To that end, the Caring Across Generations campaign organized a powerful army of consumers on Capitol Hill to advocate for the importance of immigration reform on April 16.
Photo and blog post courtesy of Family Forward Oregon
Last week, after a two-year campaign, Portland became the fourth city in the United States to pass paid sick days legislation.
As we enter the “age wave” with someone turning 65 every 8 seconds in this country, women immigrant in-home care workers are increasingly filling a critical gap for labor in the home care industry.
Jobs with Justice leaders meet with New York Senator Chuck Schumer
The 2012 elections are over, and the American people have spoken. They voted for strengthening the working class and putting people back to work—not for job-killing budget cuts and attacks on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Voters rejected cutting health care and education to pay for tax breaks for the rich.
You get sick and you’re not able to work. It’s not your fault. It’s not your intention to disrupt your employer’s business. Yet that is how many employers, as well as legislators, treat the concept of paid sick days – by blaming you for getting sick.
by Samuel Nelson, Student Labor Action Project & Caring Across Generations Organizer
Jobs with Justice is a national network of local coalitions that bring together labor unions, faith groups, community organizations, and student activists to fight for working people. Our members are in the streets in 46 cities in 24 states across the country.
