Building Bridges Radio: Your Community & Labor Report

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In Struggle Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash

African American Unemployment Still Double White Rate; FCP Home Attendants Fight Back - 28:14  

Institutional Racism in the U.S. labor market - What is to be done?
with
William Spriggs, Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO and professor in, and former chair of the Department of Economics at Howard University. Bill is also former assistant secretary for the Office of Policy at the
United States Department of Labor


The so-called recovery of the US economy has not been equally kind to everyone. Even as the unemployment rate has decreased, the unemployment rate for African Americans, is currently more than twice as high as that for white Americans. Indeed, nationwide in 2015, 9.6% of African-Americans were unemployed compared with 4.6% of whites. This 2 to 1 ratio of African American to white unemployment has persisted for at least the last 50 years.
This unemployment gap is not one of skill or education , it is because of the very real and persistent discrimination prevalent in the U.S. labor market. And, did you know that it would take 228 years for African-American families to
amass the wealth of white families ?
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FCP workers invite all home attendants to join them in demanding stolen wages, and ending mandatory 24-hour shifts 
with 
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops(NMASS)
Aint't I A Woman Campaign



Home attendants who have worked as many as two decades for First Chinese Presbyterian Community Affairs Home Attendant Corp. (FCP) caring for elderly and ill patients in their homes, were forced to work 24-hour shifts for as many as seven days a week, but paid for only 12 or 13 of these hours. The workers were also denied overtime pay.  But, they’re not taking this lying down.  Joined by workers from Chinese American Planning Council and workers from other
agencies, the FCP home attendants are demanding  that FCP resolve their case immediately by paying the workers their owed wages, and they’re headed 


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