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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Clara Calvo, Worker Owner of Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA) and Council of Defenders for Worker Cooperatives in New York City
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Clara Calvo, a worker owner of Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), testifies about the importance of worker cooperatives in New York City and requests continued support for the Worker Cooperative Business Development Initiative (WCBDI). She highlights how cooperatives contribute to the city's economic growth and provide essential services.
- Calvo immigrated to the US in 1995 and founded CHCA in 2001, which helps home care workers in The Bronx.
- She emphasizes that cooperatives in NYC offer various services like elder care, cleaning, and caregiving.
- Calvo stresses the urgency of support to prevent worker cooperatives from becoming another statistic of disappeared small businesses.
UNKNOWN
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parts in English, and then you can help me, but I have it in Spanish, actually.
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Good afternoon, members of the committee of protect workers' comp protection and members of the city council.
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My name is Clara Calvo, and I'm a worker owner of the Cooperative Home Care Associates, CHCA, and in the Council of Defenders for the Cooperative.
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The work cooperatives in the city of New York.
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I arrived to The United States in 1995 seeking a better life for my three kids and me.
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Thank you to WCBDI to to for helping us continue working in the community.
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Also, in 02/2001, I founded Cooperative Home Care Associates, CHCA.
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It's it's a company in The Bronx that helps home care workers.
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Okay.
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Just like CHCA, there's a lot of cooperatives in the city of New York, such as, help for the elders cleaning, caregiving, and many more services that continue to help the economic growth of the city.
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Thank you again to WCBDI and I see.
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If cooperatives continue growing and if you support us, we will have many more people who will join our businesses and build a hand, a working hand, which is way more committed and self sufficient and allow New York to continue with its economic growth?
Jieh Ronowski
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To grow up.
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Thank
Christopher Leon Johnson
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you.
UNKNOWN
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With your support and with the commitment from the cooperatives, it is urgent that sorry.
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So, yes, your support and commitment is very urgent and important so that we are just not another number of statistics of those small businesses that just disappeared.
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We hope that you have a minor Thank
UNKNOWN
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And
UNKNOWN
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thank you very much.
Julie Menin
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Okay.