Posts tagged Worker Leadership Development
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…

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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…

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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…

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Spring 2021 Newsletter

We hope that all of you are in good health at this time as we face the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and political uproar. This last year's journey has not been an easy one, and we are proud of the resiliency of Domestic Workers. MCDW outreach work has become a priority, and we have partnered with Steering Committee member organizations to support and advocate for our members. Through MassCOSH, we have mobilized workers to apply to the Emergency Housing Assistance (RAFT) program and MCDW's Worker Leaders have been organizing weekly food drives. We are excited about our Workers Leadership Development Program, which is in its second year. Four workers participated in the program, and they are actively participating in training the new cohort of the leadership development program. MCDW's member organizations have been busy finding ways to take care of and embrace each other. We are a community, and we need every one of you with us as we move forward.

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Summer 2020 Newsletter

We hope that all of you are in good health at this time of so much uncertainty and loss. We are grieving after the unjust murders of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor and countless others. We know that our liberation is bound with the liberation of all marginalized communities. We believe, as we always have, that Black Lives Matter, and we want to reaffirm our support and love for the Black community during these difficult times.

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