- V05, B05 -

Domestic workers are the 2. 3 million workers nationwide who provide vital support to our elders and chronically ill or disabled family members care for our children and help maintain our households. Despite their vital role in supporting American families and the economy domestic workers are underpaid and unprotected particularly in the South where nearly onethird of the countrys domestic workers live. Lawmakers should adopt Domestic Worker Bill of Rights legislation amend state laws to allow domestic workers to form unions and eliminate harmful state preemption of local labor ordinances that improve upon state law.