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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