Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist (opens in new tab)

Fifteen home health aides started what they called an indefinite hunger strike on Thursday after the City Council failed to advance a bill banning 24-hour shifts, an issue that has roiled the mostly immigrant women working in the home care industry and the vulnerable patients who rely on their round-the-clock care. For more than a […] The post Home Care Workers Launch Hunger Strike as 24-Hour Work Shifts Persist appeared first on THE CITY - NYC News.