“I worked 24-hour shifts for 10 years and never got uninterrupted sleep,” home care worker Xue Zhencheng said at a Feb. 18 hearing reintroducing the “No More 24” bill, which would ban 24-hour shifts for home health aides.
First introduced in 2022, the bill’s sponsor, Council Member Christopher Marte, signaled renewed resolve by bringing the legislation back after years of litigation and organizing by workers, including a hunger strike outside City Hall in 2024. Yet as momentum behind the measure has grown, a divide has resurfaced between home health aides and the powerful healthcare union Service Employees International Union Local 1199 that represents many of them.
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