TESTIMONY
Testimony: Rosemary Martinez, Domestic Work Organizer at Caroll Gardens Association, on Empowering Domestic Workers
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Rosemary Martinez, representing Carroll Gardens Association and the NYC Coalition for Domestic Work, testifies to request support for the Domestic Worker and Employer Empowerment Initiative for fiscal year 2025. She emphasizes the need for equitable and sustainable care, highlighting the challenges domestic workers face, such as lack of medical coverage, underpayment, and racial and gender inequalities. Martinez advocates for funding to improve outreach, education, and enforcement, aiming to foster respect and fairness in domestic work relationships.
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THANK YOU.
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Good morning, Woman's Committee Chair, Farrah Louise, and House Committee chair Lee.
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For the opportunity to speak Today, my name is Rosemary Martinez.
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I'm the domestic work organizer with Cara Gardens Association, one of the organization that is part of the New York City Coalition for domestic work.
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Our coalition is a movement of the messy workers, the messy employers, parents, family caregivers, all their adults, and people with this have been working together to transfer our new CDS Care Academy into 1 that is equitable and sustainable for all the coalition leading organization at the National Domestic Workers Alliance, New York.
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Adi Carr, Cara Gardens Association, Yakomina, and Henry Henry Henry, the the missing worker.
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Employers network as other are coalition members justifying today, I'm here to request your support for the commencement worker and employer empowerment initiative for fiscal year 2025.
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Which will provide 700 to a 1000 in much needed funding for our outreach education and enforcement support to over 8 and domestic workers and employers this year, and ensure domestic workers can work and help me in, say, working conditions promoting the needed risk pick and fairness in domestic work relationships, ultimately leading to better outcomes for both workers and employers.
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We are working closely with our industry in the many areas of New York City, and we are listening in my capacity as domestic work organizer.
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In a sodomancy worker and NYC benefits like take time off health care, most of them not having medical coverage and retirement are still unavailable to domestic workers who are also frequently underpaid.
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Rachel and gender inequality in our communities may be wars by the fact that women in people of color make up, the great majority of domestic workers, despite the fact that we have.
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Welcome numerous significant areas to leave.
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Victories since 2010, such as the NYC paid
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And a new year domestic worker bill of price.
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We'll look forward to working with you to be the city where domestic work is value and dignified.
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Thank you so much.
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