On a Treadmill Going Backward: Surviving on a Home Care Worker’s Wages
The following is an edited excerpt from a journal I kept in October 2004 about life as a home care worker in Augusta, Maine. Two days ago, I pulled the ligament under my kneecap at a client’s home,...
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The Massachusetts Senate is deciding whether to give home care workers a much-needed raise. Watch this excellent program from NJTV’s Due Process about why home care workers and other low-wage workers...
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Punitive managers and overreliance on rigid rules foster bad patterns of interaction in nursing homes, harming resident care and staff satisfaction—but there are methods managers can use to encourage...
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A new rule proposed by US DOL would raise the minimum wage for VA hospital CNAs and other federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. A new guidance and updated fact sheet from U.S. Department of Labor help...
View ArticleDCA Maine forms Partnership with Maine People’s Alliance
DCA Maine has a long history of empowering direct care workers to speak up and voice their concerns on issues regarding their work. Members have testified before legislative committees, spoken with...
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Maine needs to increase reimbursement rates and give us direct care workers a raise, says Helen Hanson in a Bangor Daily News editorial. How negative public attitudes toward direct care work can damage...
View ArticleHow My DCA Blog Post Won Me a Car
On a Treadmill Going Backward, my Direct Care Alliance blog post about how hard it is to get by on a home care worker’s wages, is developing a life of its own. Right after it was published, Steve...
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The following photos and stories are from some of the Voices Institute graduates who represented Direct Care Alliance and their profession at the Home Care Workers Rising summit. The summit was hosted...
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“The people that take care of me deserve a living wage,” says home care recipient Kyle Auxier. How well a home care worker is treated has depended entirely on the employer. Now, that’s finally...
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A new rule proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor would raise the minimum wage for VA hospital CNAs and other federal contractors to $10.10 an hour. A new guidance and updated fact sheet from the...
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