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ILO ACTRAV, 22 May 2012

The adoption by the International Labour Conference, on 16 June 2011, of ILO Convention No. 189 and Recommendation No. 201 on decent work for domestic workers, was an historic step in the struggle for social justice worldwide. It was the culmination of several decades of domestic workers’ organizations and trade unions campaigning to end exclusion, and gain recognition for the rights of domestic workers.

As in previous years, the 8th´of March survey investigates a topic which is relevant for female European workers. This year the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) women’s committee decided to have a specific section of the survey dedicated to domestic workers, following the adoption of ILO Convention 189 “Decent work for domestic workers” and Recommendation 201, in June 2011.

Bill Moyers talks with Ai-jen Poo and Sarita Gupta about activism dedicated to restoring workers’ rights – rights they say have been stripped away by corporations. Domestic workers in particular, says Poo, are a “huge and growing part of the 99 percent.”

Ai-jen recalled Gloria Steinem who, 20 years ago, wrote an article called “Revaluating Economics” where “she talked about the two invisible resources that everything else is built upon, our care work, or the work that it takes to raise families, and the earth, the planet's natural resources.”

Entrevista sobre la situación de las trabajadoras del hogar en América Latina y el Caribe con Marcelina Bautista Bautista y Lorenza Gutiérrez Gómez.