#care workers

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[liberaljane]

Reproductive labor is work -- typically designated to women -- that is required to sustain human life. It's unpaid, and is often invisible or unnoticed.

This includes tasks like cooking, cleaning, caring for children and more necessary to raise future generations. It's time to bring visibility to this labor, and acknowledge it for what it is: work. Far too many women and fems take on the bulk of household and domestic tasks in addition to having full time jobs -- also known as the 'second shift.' It's time to end gender inequality at home.

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[reasonsforhope]

Btw, if you really just Need A Job (tm)

I'd really recommend looking into care work

Care work here is specifically being a home care aid, a care aid or assistant at any kind of residential home.

This for usually for elderly or disabled adults - and those are the ones that tend to be most entry level, from what I've seen, but also for mental health, addiction recovery etc. (With the obvious caveat that some of these jobs will be more emotionally intense than others)

I'm so serious about this guys. I was applying to jobs in care work for just three weeks, starting a couple days before Christmas, and in that time I got three interviews, two jobs offers, and five additional interview requests

Care work needs people CONSTANTLY

because it's a huge sector but very hard for them to keep staff long-term. Partly because it can be high burn-out, and there's definitely toxic places out there you should watch out for. And partly because a lot of people think care work is beneath them

AND they ACTUALLY MEAN IT when they say they're entry level. Because it's so hard for them to get staff that a lot of them will advertise super aggressively that they will train you themselves. A lot of them will straight up pay for your CPR and First Aid certifications, once they hire you, too (and you can get a leg up on applications by getting a CPR/First Aid certification for like. $30 to $80, at least in the US). They also accept experience taking care of elderly/disabled/etc. family members as real experience

Like, obviously don't do it if you hate taking care of people, but if you're open to it, it's probably by far your best shot of getting hired rn, statistically

(eta: Genuinely disclaimer that it can be super taxing emotionally and large portions of the industry are indeed fucked, and def don't take a job in this field if you're gonna be an asshole to the people you're caring for, but sometimes you just need whatever job you can get.)

Seriously, though, the first time I applied for a care work job (in October 2023, yes short timeline, like I said there's some toxic workplaces etc. out there), I applied to like ten or fifteen jobs over the course of a week or so. Within three weeks, I was working.

(And they did provide all of the training, fwiw)

If you need a job and no one is hiring, seriously consider looking into it

[sweater-eater]

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help a fat genderfluid multiply disabled crip dyke with daily living tasks

19.50/hour (set by government, frowny face)

looking for someone patient, resourceful, and trauma informed! this job requires a high level of understanding consent

anarchist employer, good listener, work that has direct visible benefits to someone, creative problem solver, i have the softest cat on gods green earth, work experience from a disability justice scholar-dropout, can teach you cool things about cooking, style and flair for days [keysmash]

a good fit for this job is able to cope with witnessing homelessness, the fact that i am allergic to an overwhelming number of things and also that i am a very kind smart reasonable patient person but struggling a lot in due to malnutrition and cognitive decline related to medical neglect and recent and ongoing trauma

in a general sense, you need to be relatively ablebodied to do this work and i am, i cannot stress this enough, trying so so hard to survive. with so so much love, please leave me alone (at least re this job) if you cannot keep commitments or regularly lift 20lbs without hurting yourself.

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[iww-gnv]

Domestic workers are organizing for better working conditions nationwide

Domestic workers throughout the country are pushing for better working conditions, staging rallies and protests and lobbying for labor prote

Domestic workers throughout the country are pushing for better working conditions, staging rallies and protests and lobbying for labor protections. The workers, including nannies, house cleaners and home care workers, have launched campaigns in places including Miami, where two organizations led a mid-June march calling for a “Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights.”

[eaglesnick]

“Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.”  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Rishi Sunak invited the British people to judge his fitness to be Prime Minister on the outcome of five pledges. One of these pledges was to stop asylum seekers crossing the Channel on small boats.

"...we will pass new laws to stop small boats, making sure that if you come to this country illegally, you are detained and swiftly removed." (Rishi Sunak: January 2023)

The people behind the small boats crossing, the people smuggling gangs, have been described by the Home Office as “heinous criminals and organised criminal networks.”

Defending her Rwanda Deportation Scheme to discourage illegal migrants, Suella Braverman, Home Secretary said:

“We want to ensure that people understand they shouldn’t make the journey in the first place because they will be removed if they do so. That will stop the people-smuggling gangs."

All very laudable Ms Braverman and definitely a vote winner for the Tory Party. Such tactics worked brilliantly during the Brexit campaign. We all remember the slogan “take back control of our borders”. It was powerful then and it is powerful now. Unfortunately, the slogan has turned out to be totally hollow, as hollow as Rishi Sunak's and Suella Braverman's pledge to limit migration. 

While all the headlines concerning migrants centre on illegal migration, overseas workers are pouring into Britain by the back door, many of them the victim of legalised people traffickers.

This is a headline from one week ago:

“Modern slavery helpline calls surge from care staff."  (BBC News: 22/10/23)

Unconscionable businesses have been recruiting staff from overseas to work in the care sector, with many of these workers being  charged thousands of pounds  for that privilege.

“The cost of sponsorship is a few hundred pounds, which is met by most care companies… a few unscrupulous employers and agents are charging workers as much as £25,000, adding interest and deducting the debt from their wages.” (BBC News: 22/10/23)

How this “legal” trafficking of migrants differs from that of the illegal Channel crossing traffickers is hard discern. In both cases migrants are being used to line the pockets of unscrupulous gangs. What is more, many of the legally sanctioned migrants that go on to look after our elderly and sick relatives are totally untrained.

According to the National Care Association, over 60,000 overseas workers have been recruited in the past year, leading to many untrained staff being sent to care for our  old, sick, and vulnerable citizens. What is more, many of these migrants are being forced to work excessive hours as well as having to pay massive recruitment fees.

Unison found that migrant workers were required to be on permanent call, had to work 19-hour shifts without a break, and had wages withheld. (Guardian: 10/07/230

The government response to this shameful situation was to say that those operating illegally “COULD” face prosecution.

Not WILL face prosecution but COULD face prosecution. So while my and your vulnerable relatives are being “cared" for by an exploited, modern-day slavery workforce, many without the skills to do so, the government will consider whether to prosecute those responsible or not.

Meanwhile, the people traffickers organising the illegal Channel crossing continue to be castigated as “heinous criminals” and “organised criminal networks” which Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman have "vowed" to stop.

Such a shame they don’t apply the same moral outrage and indignation when it comes to the businesses exploiting migrants working in our care sector.

I know what my judgement is on Rishi Sunak's fitness to be Prime Minister.

[kmiddletonprincesss]

#𝑅𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑇𝑜𝑢𝑟 🚂♥️ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑁𝐻𝑆 𝑉𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 ‘𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘-𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑡’ 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑒. 𝐴𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐿𝑒𝑛 𝐺𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑛𝑒𝑟. 𝐿𝑒𝑛 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑠 ♥️ 𝑇𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑢𝑘𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝐿𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 💟💟

[justascrollingghost]

Today I’ve been grabbed, spat at, pushed, had my hair pulled, been kicked, almost headbutted three times, screamed at, had things launched at me and finished my shift 3 and a half hours later than I was supposed to but yeah residential workers do fuck all and have super easy jobs xo