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Headline: Home Attendants Hunger Strike At City Hall Against 24 Hour Shifts - Day 5

Caption: Home attendants close out their five day hunger strike with a rally outside of City Hall. Strikers were camped out in cold, windy and rainy weather for five days and nights to call on New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams to bring the No More 24 Act to a vote in the Council. The No More 24 Act (Int 175) would end the twenty-four hour shifts assigned to home attendants in New York City. The workers cite the racist and sexist practice of 24 hour workdays as home attendants are primarily women of color, migrants and immigrants, the health risks to workers and their patients and the wage theft that exists within the industry

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