Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network

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Organizing to make every home a fair workplace. Raising standards for domestic workers and winning investments in care. Building the caring majority! #CareCantWait Join us: domesticemployers.org

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Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jul 14

Joan Sebastian Guerrero should still be alive. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should still be alive. Our hearts are heavy today. Again, another person killed at the hands of ICE — less than a week apart. 💔 #FundCareNotICE 🧵

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jul 13

#CareCantWait. These family caregiving stories say it plainly. Millions of families are living it, and they can’t do it alone. 🧵 1/5

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jul 10

We are not an afterthought! HiH member Deaka Mclain speaks to @abc7.bsky.social about the proposed IHSS budget cuts in CA — which we saved, mostly — and how these cuts affect people with disabilities. Listen up and remember — we’re still fighting! 💪 #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jul 7

Our homes are powerful centers for moral action, where we can enact our values. In this moment, thinking of home as a sanctuary is also a powerful framework of resistance against the injustice of the federal government's anti-immigration agenda.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jul 1

Disability Pride Month started with a fight — and we're not done fighting! 💪 #DisabilityPrideMonth 🧵 1/7

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 30

The Constitution held. We have birthright citizenship. Today, we breathe a sigh of relief. The Supreme Court has affirmed what the 14th Amendment has guaranteed for over 150 years: every child born on U.S. soil is an American citizen — full stop. 🧵 1/6 #SCOTUS #ImmigrantRights

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 30

“We know that people with disabilities and older adults have better outcomes and live longer lives when they are served in the community and not in institutions. So this could have extremely dire consequences.” — @mariatown.bsky.social, president and CEO of @aapd.com

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 22

Today marks the 27th anniversary of the Olmstead decision, a landmark Supreme Court case that affirmed the rights of people with disabilities to live and age in their homes and communities. An #Olmstead2026 thread. 🧵

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 19

#Juneteenth 1865: the last enslaved people in Galveston, TX learned they were free — 2½ years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Justice is slow. But we keep fighting. Black domestic workers built this care economy. Undervalued. Underpaid. Still here. We celebrate their legacy. ✊

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 17

World Cup is here — and so is increased ICE presence at games. Instead of panic, let's use this moment to build real safety with immigrant workers, neighbors, and each other. ⚽ That's why we're preparing! 🧵 1/3 #NoICEInTheCup #HandsOffOurCopa @horizonsprjt.bsky.social @handsoffnyc.bsky.social

Text reads: No ICE in the Cup. | PPPEEEWWWEE

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 16

Domestic workers are on the frontlines of the care crisis. They deserve dignity, respect, and full recognition regardless of immigration status. We need well‑paid, protected care jobs, not exploitation or isolation. Full recognition can't wait another moment. #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 15

“Medi-Cal cuts cause disabled rage.” Today, CA’s legislature is expected to vote on the future of tens of thousands of disabled, older, & immigrant Californians. As we wait, we continue to fight. 💪 #ProtectMediCal #DisabilityJustice

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 10

Congress Just Handed ICE $70 Billion More. Our statement: Yesterday, Congress passed an additional $70 Billion in funding that will be used to further terrorize immigrant communities... #FundCareNotICE 🧵 1/8

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Jun 10

"Why balance the budget on my back?” NO to a $2,000 asset limit. NO to cuts to Medi-Cal. Don’t put the onus on those who need it most. Raise revenue from corporations and wealthy individuals instead!

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· May 12

"You don't know what it's like to apply for these programs, you don't know what it's like to be born disabled and every year have to defend your right to get the same care that you got last year."

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· May 11

And listen to Hand in Hand member Salua, as they joined us in a day of action to #ShutDownDilley yesterday. 🦋

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· May 8

Sunday is Mother's Day, and we know that mothers are some of the hardest hit by the current care crisis, which continues to worsen due to inhumane policies — including cuts to Medicaid and the targeting of immigrants by ICE. #MothersDay2026 🧵 1/4

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· May 7

Los Angeles and Seattle. ✊ #WorkersOverBillionaires

A group of five white people standing together smiling, some are holding signs that read: Domestic Work is Essential Work and Fair Pay. Safe Work. Respect! Stand with workers.

Four white people standing together, two wearing green Hand in Hand t-shirts and three are holding signs that read: Domestic Workers Make All Other Work Possible, Domestic Work is Essential Work, and Stand with Immigrant Workers.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· May 7

May Day may have passed, but we're still standing together for domestic workers, immigrant workers, and ALL workers –– every day, saying it loud and clear: Fund Care, Not ICE! Throwing it back to us taking to the streets in Washington D.C., New York City, San Bernardino... 💪 #MayDay2026

A multiracial and multiethnic group of various genders and ages standing together outside. Some are holding signs that read: Defend Immigrant Care Workers and Fund Care Not ICE.

A large multicultural and multiethnic group of domestic worker advocates of various genders and ages marching. Banners in the front read: National Domestic Workers Alliance, NYC Coalition for Domestic Work, and Protect Immigrant New Yorkers | Pass NY4All.

A multiracial and multiethnic group of nine people of various genders and ages, standing together for a group photo, smiling widely. Some wearing pink NYC Coalition for Domestic Work t-shirts, and some holding signs that read: Adhikaar and Immigrants Make America Great.

A large group of Latine domestic worker and immigration advocates, outdoors, holding large signs in the shape of monarch butterflies with text that read: We Belong here! and Resist!

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· May 1

Today is May Day, also known as #InternationalWorkersDay — a day to celebrate all the victories that workers have organized for and won, including the Domestic Workers Bills of Rights passed in 13 states, 2 cities, and Washington, D.C. A #MayDay thread 🧵 1/4

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Apr 15

Yesterday, we joined our partners and allies in a letter to Congress urging them to exclude any funding cuts or harmful changes to Medicaid from any budget reconciliation or other legislation. Medicaid is a lifeline. 🧵 1/2 #ProtectMedicaid

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 30

In California, we joined 6 different mobilizations and shared our domestic worker solidarity toolkit with people ready to sustain the momentum beyond the rallies and marches. Our members were ready in San Francisco. 🫶 #SanctuaryHomes @indivisiblesf.bsky.social @50501sf.bsky.social

An older white woman sitting behind a long table with a yellow table cloth and a lot of pamphlets and resources on it, while speaking to a person in front of them standing, wearing a hat and a backpack.

An older white woman wearing glasses, leaning over a long table with a yellow table cloth and a lot of pamphlets and resources on it. In the other side of a tank, a person wearing a backpack also leans over the table.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 26

Today is #EqualPayDay and in 2026 the numbers are still unacceptable! Women working full time won't see equal pay until 2088 at the current pace... 🧵 1/5

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 19

At Hand in Hand, we know that none of our work would be possible without the contributions of women to the care economy. This Women's History Month, we celebrate every domestic worker who has organized, advocated, and pushed us forward. Look at this #HerStory! 🎉 #WomensHistoryMonth

Text reads: Washington has joined a movement! | Below text are three rows of three small squares with text that reads in each square from left to right (each row): 2026 | Washington; 2024| New Jersey; 2024 | Rhode Island; 2022 | Washington DC; 2021 | Virginia; 2020 | Philadelphia; 2019 | New Mexico; 2018 | Seattle; 2017 | Nevada.

Two rows of three small squares with text that reads in each square, and one single one below on the left. From left to right (each row): 2016 | Illinois; 2015 | Oregon; 2015 | Connecticut; 2014 | Massachusetts; 2013 | Hawaii; 2013 | California; 2010 | New York| Text to the right of the final square reads: Until now, only 12 states, 2 cities, and the District of Columbia have passed domestic worker protection laws. | Below text reads: With this bill — Washington becomes the 13th state with a bill of rights!

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 19

And the wins keep coming: after years of fighting for WA Cares, starting this July, women in Washington will have access to the long-term care benefits they've earned and deserve. This is what winning looks like!

Text reads: WA Cares Fund | The nation's first public long-term care insurance program — is a lifeline for women. Women live longer, need more care, and are far more likely to be impoverished by long-term care costs. | WA Cares changes that. | Below text is the photo of a multiracial and multiethnic group of people holding signs, some read: Casa Latina, and another says We Care for WA Cares.

Text reads: ~3.5M Washington workers enrolled in WA Cares — the majority women; The lifetime benefit available to pay for long-term care services: $36,500; 70% of people over 65 who will need long-term care at some point — women disproportionately among them; Women are 2X as likely as men to spend 5+ years needing long-term care.

Two small frames with photos on the right is a photo of a Filipino-American woman standing outside on the steps of the Olympia State Capitol Building behind a podium with a sign that reads: We Deserve a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights NOW!, holding a microphone with one hand and a piece of paper in the other, speaking into the microphone. A large crowd of domestic worker advocates behind her. Next to it is a photo of white woman standing at a WA Cares with other advocates sitting with signs. | Text below reads: Importance of WA Cares Fund & Domestic Workers Bill of Rights | (bulleted text) Provides crucial support for long-term care needs of women; Ensures financial security for enrolled domestic workers; Guarantees rights including contracts and anti-discrimination protections.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 19

Women make history. 💪 They are the majority of both care workers and care recipients in the U.S. — and domestic workers have been fighting for their rights and protections for generations. Now, WA has joined that history. The WA Domestic Workers Bill of Rights has been signed into law! 🙌 🧵 1/3

Domestic Workers in WA made history! | Washington has made history — joining a growing movement to protect the workers who care for our homes and families. Of the approximately 168,000 domestic workers in WA, 91% of them are women. 60% of them, women of color. | Below is the photo of a large multiracial and multiethnic group of people clapping as a Governor Bob Ferguson, a white man standing behind a podium, hands a pen to a domestic worker in the crowd.

Text reads: Rights guaranteed under the new law... | (bulleted text) Minimum wage and overtime protections; Written agreements; Privacy Protections; Protection from discrimination & retaliation; Advance notice of termination & severance.

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 17

Like @jennstowe.bsky.social, ED of @domesticworkers.bsky.social said, we need to ensure that those who make it possible for ourselves and our loved ones to live and age in our own homes and communities with dignity, are able to "live with dignity themselves." Listen up! #FairPay4HomeCare

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 9

Join us RIGHT NOW for a New York 4 All Call-In Day! ☎️ Between 10am - 12pm we are joining our #NY4All coalition partners for a call-in day to ensure that the bill’s co-sponsors KNOW that we want ALL of what NY4ALL does, not just parts of it!

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 8

Many of the domestic workers who make care possible for our families are under attack, as the current administration continues to target immigrants and their communities. Today, we recognize the contributions that immigrant women make to the care economy. Happy International Working Women’s Day! 💐

Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network@domesticemployers· Mar 8

We come together across race, class and ability to bring visibility, dignity and fairness to the care and domestic work that women provide. We remain steadfast in our resolve, especially in moments of adversity.