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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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HOUSE RESOLUTION
RECOGNIZING AI-JEN POO FOR HER EXTRAORDINARY EFFORTS TO TRANSFORM WORKING CONDITIONS AND SET LABOR STANDARDS FOR MILLIONS OF DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES, INCLUDING HAWAII.
WHEREAS, currently in the United States, the majority of domestic workers are excluded from most federal and state labor laws, including collective bargaining, occupational safety and health protections, sick and vacation pay, and protections from discrimination and sexual harassment; and
WHEREAS, AI-JEN POO, the daughter of pro-democracy immigrants from Taiwan, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in 1996, and began organizing worker-led movements of immigrant women and domestic workers after being outraged by stories of the long hours they worked in less than favorable conditions and with little recourse; and
WHEREAS, for over two decades, AI-JEN POO has worked tirelessly to transform working conditions and set fair labor standards for America's 2.5 million nannies, housekeepers, and elderly or disabled caregivers, while ensuring that every working family has the support and resources they need to care for their children and aging loved ones and also providing the care workforce access to jobs that will allow them to care for their own families; and
WHEREAS, as the executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, AI-JEN POO has been instrumental in getting Domestic Worker Bill of Rights legislation passed in seven states, including Hawaii; she is also the co-director of Caring Across Generations and is currently working to pass the Kupuna Caregiver Program, which helps family caregivers in Hawaii care for their elderly at home; and
WHEREAS, AI-JEN POO is the author of Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elderly Boom in a Changing America; she has also been recognized in 2012 by TIME Magazine as one of "The World's 100 Most Influential People", Fortune.com as the "World's 50 Greatest Leaders", and in 2014, the MacArthur Foundation recognized her with their "genius" fellowship; now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-ninth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2017, that this body hereby recognizes AI-JEN POO for her extraordinary efforts to transform working conditions and set labor standards for millions of domestic workers in the United States, including Hawaii, and extends to her its warmest aloha and best wishes for continued success in all future endeavors.
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Recognizing Ai-Jen Poo for her extraordinary efforts to transform working conditions and set labor standards for millions of domestic workers in the United States and Hawaii.