AFL-CIO Partners with Domestic Workers Alliance; Call for Domestic Worker Representatives at ILC

New York – In a historic move, the AFL-CIO signed a new partnership agreement with the National Domestic Workers Alliance. The landmark agreements outline a framework for the groups to partner around issues of organizing, winning rights for excluded workers and building long-term relationships. "We have to work together and take collective action – whether it's in the streets, at city hall or at the ILO," said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. Learn more here.

• NDWA / AFL-CIO Partnership Agreement
• Press Release on Partnership Agreement May 10, 2011
• Domestic Worker Stories
• AFL-CIO blog
• In These Times story
• LaborNews story
• Remarks by Barbara Young, May 10, 2011
• Report by Domestic Workers United on the effort to extend New York Labor Relations Act coverage to Domestic Workers

Joint Demand for Inclusion of Domestic Workers

The AFL-CIO and NDWA also called for domestic workers to be included as part of the national trade union delegations to the 2011 International Labour Conference in Geneva. Read their open letter here.