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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: Chinatown Home Care Workers Continue to Fight 24-Hour Workdays
Description: On Feb. 26, more than 100 home care workers were attacked by the NYPD and seven were arrested at a protest outside a fancy Wall Street fundraiser for the Chinatown non-profit that controls their working conditions.
The workers from the Ain’t I A Woman campaign say that the Chinese-American Planning Council, or CPC, owes them $90 million in back pay. The focus of the protesters’ ire is a law that allows their employer to assign them 24-hour home care shifts for which they only receive 13 hours of pay.
We speak with Vicki Niu, a volunteer with the Ain’t I a Woman Campai...