Care Is Essential Campaign
Many of our members with CGNA work as home care attendants, work that the COVID pandemic has shown is essential to keeping our nation’s seniors and people with disabilities living safely and with dignity at home. Care work—predominantly done by Black, Latina, and Asian women—is the backbone of our economy and our families.
That’s why we are excited to join the National Domestic Workers Alliance and SEIU to make home care jobs good union jobs with wages of at least $15 an hour, benefits and training to provide the highest quality of care. And it’s why we’re telling Congress to take action now to put frontline home care jobs at the center of our nation’s economic recovery plan.
TAKE ACTION
Take action right now! Call your congressperson now and tell them that Care workers deserve good jobs, a path for citizenship and our families deserve the care they need!
English: 877-689-2371
Spanish: 877-663-8727
#CareIsEssential
Care work is a cornerstone of the American economy, at the center of our communities and our family life. It helps our loved ones live with dignity.
Home care jobs are the future of work. The careforce is the fastest growing workforce in the country. Making these jobs good, union jobs that pay at least $15 an hour will lift up millions of women of color who make up the overwhelming majority of the care workforce.
Care workers have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, nursing home and home care workers are united in clear demands: respect us, protect us, and pay us.
The only way to move our country forward is to ensure that care is at the center of our economy.