Article 6B2JG New York City home care aides push to end 24-hour shifts: ‘Destroyed my body’

New York City home care aides push to end 24-hour shifts: ‘Destroyed my body’

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Michael Sainato
from US news | The Guardian on (#6B2JG)

Currently, workers receive wages only for 13 hours of work on their 24-hour shifts, with the rest 11 hours amounting to unpaid labor

Zhu Nu Jun has worked as a home care aide in New York City for eight years, working three 24-hour shifts a week. That increased to four 24-hour shifts a week last year.

It can be brutal and intense work.

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