{"id":1432,"date":"2012-10-10T11:35:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2015-10-10T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T20:43:14","slug":"domestics-whos-burdening-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=1432","title":{"rendered":"Domestics: Who\u2019s Burdening Whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.ca.gov\/docs\/AB_889_Veto_Message.pdf\">Governor Jerry Brown\u2019s veto of the California Domestic Workers\u2019 Bill of Rights<\/a> (AB 889), the California Chamber of Commerce expressed support for Brown\u2019s decision and claimed that the bill would have placed a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/01\/domestic-workers-california_n_1930268.html\">burden onto working families who are struggling<\/a>.\u201d Apparently the California Chamber of Commerce does not view sexual harassment, underpayment and \u00a070 hour work weeks \u2013 just three of the countless unjust labor standards faced by domestic workers \u2013 to be burdensome.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s even more alarming than the California Chamber of Commerce\u2019s ignorance is the fact that Brown is on their side. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/california-politics\/2012\/09\/gov-jerry-brown-veto-breaks-overtime-nannies.html\">Brown asked<\/a>, \u201cWhat would be the additional costs [to the employers of domestic workers]?\u201d But whose cost is greatest here? While the price of nannies, care takers and housekeepers may increase for employers, the cost of not having basic labor protections is surely a greater issue.<\/p>\n<p>Although the business community in California considered AB 889 to be \u2018radical\u2019 in its demands, in reality, the bill would have simply extended the rights granted to the rest of the labor workforce to domestic workers. What is \u2018radical,\u2019 however, is denying the 200,000 domestic workers in California the same labor protections granted to almost every other manual laborer since the New Deal. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/01\/domestic-workers-california_n_1930268.html\">Caitlin Vega<\/a>, a legislative advocate with the California Labor Federation, stated, \u201cWe\u2019re not creating new rights that no one has ever heard of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/10\/01\/domestic-workers-bill-of-rights-veto_n_1928001.html\">Sylvia Lopez<\/a>, a worker with the California Domestic Workers Coalition stated, \u201cFor decades we have tirelessly cared for California\u2019s homes, children, the elderly and people with disabilities with the protection of basic rights.\u201d Even Brown referred to the work done by domestic workers to be a \u201cnoble endeavor.\u201d But until California grants basic labor protections to its domestic workers, a burden will continue to lie on these hard workers and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Smith, michaelsmith093@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Governor Jerry Brown\u2019s veto of the California Domestic Workers\u2019 Bill of Rights (AB 889), the California Chamber of Commerce expressed support for Brown\u2019s decision and claimed that the bill would have placed a \u201cburden onto working families who are struggling.\u201d Apparently the California Chamber of Commerce does not view sexual harassment, underpayment and \u00a070 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1740,1742,62,670,772,1739,1741],"class_list":["post-1432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-caitlin-vega","tag-california-domestic-workers-coalition","tag-domestic-workers","tag-domestic-workers-bill-of-rights","tag-domestics","tag-michael-smith","tag-sylvia-lopez","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19397,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/19397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}