CNPI's Christine Lewis of Domestic Workers United hosts a half hour special on New York radio station WBAI. Marking International Working Women's Day, Christine brings to the airwaves the stories of the City's 200,000 domestic workers and nannies. She was joined by leaders of the domestic workers movement, all immigrant women of color, who detailed their struggle for basic labor rights.
CNPI's Christine Lewis reports on the aftermath of two Indonesian domestic workers who were held captive in the home of their wealthy employer in Long Island
Hundreds of nannies and caregivers marched in New York over the weekend to call for State lawmakers to pass a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Currently domestic workers, who are mostly immigrant women of color, are written out of most standard labor laws. But there is a new movement spurred by the workers themselves to change that. CNPI's Christine Lewis reports.
CNPI's Christine Lewis, of DWU, reports from protests in Brooklyn in response to the arrests of 32 youths of color.
CNPI's Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United, speaks with Guillermina Castellano, with the San Francisco Day Laborers Program, about domestic work from California to New York.
Thousands of migrant workers are regularly brought into the Gulf Coast by US based corporations that exploit them and then threaten to deport them if they complain. In April 2006, more than 500 workers from India were lured into this country under false promises. Early this year, some of the enslaved Indian workers walked from New Orleans to Washington DC to protest their illtreatment. They recently came to NYC to express their support for other immigrant workers. CNPI reporter Christine Lewis spoke to one of them, Aby Reju.
Domestic Workers staged a protest in front of the home of an employer who is said to have abused her nanny. CNPI reporter Christine Lewis was there to compile these voices.
On June 26th, a judge sentenced a Long Island couple for the abuse of two Indonesian domestic workers. Christine Lewis (Domestic Workers United) files this report for Free Speech Radio News.
CNPI reporter, Christine Lewis of DWU was recently in South Carolina for the commemoration of late Reverend Joseph Armstrong DeLaine, a Civil Rights Activist who led a crusade to desegregate public schools. Rev. DeLaine was one of the victorious plaintiffs in one of the cases that constituted the Brown decision, Briggs vs Elliot.
Christine files this story for Free Speech Radio News.
Next year, television broadcasters will move to digital broadcasting, automatically creating enormous unused spectrum between the channels. The unused spectrum, otherwise known as White Spaces, will allow the public to use it with broadband-enabled mobile devices that would significantly reduce the digital divide.
CNPI reporter, Christine Lewis of Domestic Workers United files this report for Free Speech Radio News.
Children of nannies and those raised by Domestic workers are calling on NY State lawmakers to pass a Bill of Rights first introduced to the state legislature in 2004. The bill was issued by Domestic Workers United, a membership-based organization fighting for power, respect, and fair labor standard for domestic workers. CNPI reporter, Christine Lewis was at the event to file this story for Free Speech Radio News.