We are disabled, crip, mad, debilitated, and disability activists, advocates, scholars, workers, and home care recipients.<\/p>\n
We proclaim our full support for the struggle<\/a> of the home care workers<\/a> of New York City who are currently engaged<\/a> in the \u201cNo More 24<\/a>\u201d campaign. We specifically support their immediate demand<\/a> for enactment of the No More 24 bill (City Council bill, Intro. 303), and we support the broader struggle of the Ain’t I A Woman?!<\/a> coalition against the hyper-exploitation of home care workers.<\/p>\n Presently, tens of thousands of New York City home care workers are compelled to labor for 24-hour shifts at only 13-hours pay<\/a>. These workers are predominantly<\/a> immigrant women of color, subjected to systematic precarity, vulnerability, under-valuation, overwork, debility, and disablement. They have been unfairly made to shoulder the failings<\/a> of medical insurance, corporate home care, and municipal and state political systems.<\/p>\n Home care workers deserve far better than the intolerable status quo. So, too, do disabled people and other recipients of home care. Disabled people in New York City and nationwide face disproportionately high rates of poverty, houselessness, unemployment, violence, neglect, discrimination, incarceration, and institutionalization. All disabled people deserve to live dignified, autonomous, well-resourced lives as full members of society in their own homes and communities.<\/p>\n While sympathetic to the concerns expressed by some disabled people<\/a> about the No More 24 bill, we think it is horribly mistaken that some leaders of disability NGOs and legacy advocacy organizations<\/a> have publicly framed<\/a> the No More 24 workers\u2019 struggle as counterposed to the interests of the \u201cdisability community.\u201d We know well that disabled people have much to lose (and potentially gain) in the outcome of this fight. But we know, too, that the battle lines in this fight are not primarily between disabled people and the home care workers<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are further disappointed that some supposed allies of disabled people \u2013 including the officialdoms of certain unions<\/a>, and the Democratic Party state governor and city mayor<\/a>, Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani \u2013 have lent their efforts to stymieing<\/a> or otherwise slow-walking<\/a> the No More 24 campaign, citing in part their \u201cconcern\u201d for the disabled. We reject this as a hollow alibi for refusal to act on the just demands of the home care workers.<\/p>\n In sum, we endorse the home care workers\u2019 demand for an immediate end to 24-hour shifts at 13-hours pay. We further emphasize what to us is an inextricably linked demand, namely, that disabled people should continue to have the option of receiving care in their own homes and communities, with no reduction in the number of care hours received. We view the home care corporations, \u201cmanaged care\u201d insurers, and city and state government officials \u2013 that is, the most powerful entities in this many-sided relationship \u2013 as being squarely responsible for effecting this latter demand by way of their access to ample funding sources (this is, after all, the richest city in the richest country in the history of the world).<\/p>\n This is a crisis of the ruling class\u2019s making. It is the fault of neither the exploited home care workers nor the predominantly poor recipients of home care. Consequently, we believe that the joining of the struggles and demands for both workers\u2019 justice and disability justice will strengthen each in a powerful mutualistic coalition. Thus, we appeal to the home care workers, the No More 24 campaign, and the Ain\u2019t I A Woman?! coalition, as well as to all disability advocacy organizations, to explicitly advance our respective interests in tandem. We say: \u201cNo More 24!\u201d, \u201cPut People First!\u201d, and \u201cUniversal Home Care Access is a Right!”<\/p>\n Add your signature<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors or the Tempest Collective. For more information, see \u201cAbout Tempest Collective<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/small> Sign this letter in support of NYC home care workers as they struggle against hyper-exploitation, including a regime of 24-hour shifts for 13 hours\u2019 pay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,583],"tags":[61,53],"class_list":["post-14829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-solidarity-statement","tag-new-york-city","tag-workers-rights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/34.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tempestmag.org\/test02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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