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Home care workers stage hunger strike for Council bill banning 24-hour shifts

By Max Parrott Posted on March 21, 2024

For the last two years, a group of home care workers have been pushing a City Council bill to ban 24-hour shifts in their industry. Many of them have been rallying around this issue for almost 10 years. 

Though the bill gained some momentum in the City Council when it was introduced to the City Council a year and a half ago, Council Speaker Adrienne Adams never brought it for a vote, insisting it’s a state issue. Now a group of around two dozen have started a hunger strike to demand that the Speaker let the full Council decide on the issue.

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Home care workers stage hunger strike for Council bill banning 24-hour shifts

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