{"id":371195,"date":"2018-07-28T15:35:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/seattle-domestic-workers-win-most-comprehensive-bill-of-rights-in-us\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:35:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:35:19","slug":"seattle-domestic-workers-win-most-comprehensive-bill-of-rights-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/seattle-domestic-workers-win-most-comprehensive-bill-of-rights-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Domestic Workers Win Most Comprehensive Bill of Rights in US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Domestic workers rally on March 2018 after sharing their stories with the Seattle City Council members to make the case for the city’s first Domestic Worker Bill of Rights.<\/figcaption>
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On July 27, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed into law the city\u2019s domestic workers\u2019 bill of rights<\/a>. The ordinance, which passed the Seattle City Council unanimously on Monday, establishes protections for the city\u2019s more than 30,000 nannies, caregivers and housekeepers, who have historically been excluded<\/a> from labor laws. Seattle is now the only city in the United States with a comprehensive domestic workers\u2019 bill of rights. The city joins eight states<\/a> that have adopted a domestic workers\u2019 bill of rights.<\/p>\n

Against a grim national backdrop<\/a> in which traditional labor unions are being drained of any remaining power, the persistence of the domestic workers\u2019 movement throughout the country is indicative of how labor organizing may continue to evolve, incorporating workers\u2019 efforts to exert pressure directly on local policymaking bodies.<\/p>\n

Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, who was just elected to her position in November, was instrumental to the ordinance\u2019s passage.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a woman, as a person of color, as a third generation Chicana, I know that many of our issues have been on the back burner historically,\u201d Mosqueda told Truthout. \u201cWhen I got into office, this was the first legislation I was committed to passing.\u201d <\/p>\n

Councilmember Mosqueda and her colleagues were moved by the advocacy of domestic workers like Etelbina Hauser. Hauser, 57, was born in Honduras and spent many years as a domestic worker in Seattle. In the past, Hauser had suffered harassment and abuse<\/a> at the hands of her employers.<\/p>\n

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Hauser is now an organizer with the National Domestic Workers Alliance<\/a>. The Seattle ordinance was the first legislative campaign she worked on, and she was present at Monday\u2019s unanimous…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Domestic workers rally on March 2018 after sharing their stories with the Seattle City Council members to make the case for the city’s first Domestic Worker Bill of Rights.Domestic Workers \/ Twitter On July 27, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed into law the city\u2019s domestic workers\u2019 bill of rights. The ordinance, which passed the Seattle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-371195","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}