Winter 2023 Newsletter

This Black History Month, we invite our supporters to look at the beautiful timeline “A History of Domestic Work and Worker Organizing” created by the National Domestic Workers Alliance in collaboration with activist scholars Jennifer Guglielmo, Michelle Joffroy, and Diana Sierra Becerra…

The Brazilian Worker Center conducted a study on the effectiveness of the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights, carried out in partnership with the Boston College Law School Civil Rights Clinic…

In January, a group of ten domestic workers completed a four-session leadership development course with MCDW, “Learning to be Leaders”…

This January we held a grassroots fundraiser to support the essential peer-to-peer outreach of domestic worker leaders…

Planning for the New Year

As we enter the new year, we are dreaming of justice, respect and dignity for all domestic workers in Massachusetts…

In 2022, MCDW built structures, teams, and programs to create a path towards worker leadership…

In 2023, we hope to continue on our path to worker-led organizing and collective advocacy. One piece of this goal is to raise $5000 in January to support the essential peer-to-peer outreach of Worker Leaders…

Fall 2022 Newsletter

A Message from Director Myriam Hernandez Jennings...

In partnership with Boston Medical Center, and as a member of Equity Now & Beyond, between October and November 9th, the Brazilian Women's Group organized 5 COVID-19 vaccine clinics, including one against the flu, vaccinating 115 people…

In October, WILD participated in the Women Build Boston conference, which brought together over 600 women in the building trades -- carpenters, electricians, plumbers, sheetmetal workers and more. Domestic workers and building trades workers can learn from each others' experience…

We have begun our new and revamped leadership development class for domestic worker leaders in training…

What is the Massachusetts Domestic Workers Bill of Rights? Let's break down the legislation into more manageable pieces…

Summer 2022 Newsletter

Interview with Jenny, Domestic Worker and Mother Leader…

This spring, MCDW’s worker membership has worked in solidarity with Homes for All Massachusetts (a statewide formation of grassroots housing justice groups working to halt displacement, increase community control of land, and win housing justice) as part of the movement to end the statewide ban on rent control…

This spring, the Brazilian Worker Center (BWC) were coordinators on the Licenses for All campaign…

The Coalition to Stop Wage Theft is made up of nineteen organizations including members of the MCDW steering committee (Brazilian Women’s Group, Brazilian Worker Center, and MassCOSH) and MCDW partners (Greater Boston Legal Services). This coalition proposed An Act to Prevent Wage Theft, Promote Employer Accountability, and Enhance Public Enforcement (Bill H.1959/S.1179)…

Our worker members shared a resource called keepyourbenefits.org which provides information on how to avoid being classed as “likely to become a public charge” (LPC) when applying for Lawful Permanent Residence (Green Card) through a family-based petition. Avoiding this classification makes it safer to access food, health, and housing benefits as a new US resident…

The Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers recently received the Lenny Zakim Fund grant…

Winter 2022 Newsletter

Message from Director Myrna Morales…

Since the pandemic started, the worker leaders of MCDW have been building and volunteering within various mutual aid networks, such as a food distribution program…

Interview with Tara Polansky, of Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employer’s Network…

Congratulations to Mayra Molina, who recently won the Woman of Courage Award from the Dominican Development Center (DDC) and the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)…

Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers was awarded The Burgess Urban Fund (BUF), a grant program of the Episcopal City Mission…

Te Recordaremos Por Siempre, Rosa…

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