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A Home Care Worker Battles Cancer and Helps Pass Overtime Protection

A Home Care Worker Battles Cancer and Helps Pass Overtime Protection 699813 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796017699813New Labor ForumYang and Pottenger research-article2017 Working Class Voices New Labor Forum 2017, Vol. 26(2) 91 –93 A Home Care Worker Copyright © 2017, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Battles Cancer and sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796017699813 DOI: 10.1177/1095796017699813 Helps Pass Overtime journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Protection Emma Yang with Kressent Pottenger Keywords immigrant workers, women workers, worker centers, health care, debt I am a home care worker, and when I was taking happens for a reason, and I just had to trust in care of an elderly client who was bedbound, I God. She said everything would be fine. So I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was undoc- called up my family and told them the news. umented and did not have any health insurance. But I had a doctor friend from my hometown in I was only making enough for the Philippines, and sometimes I would go visit me to survive and to send some him and have myself checked and do some lab money home to my children in the tests. I had my mammogram annually at Philippines. Presbyterian Hospital [in Los Angeles]. These were free because I got them in October when But http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

A Home Care Worker Battles Cancer and Helps Pass Overtime Protection

Yang, Emma; Pottenger, Kressent
New Labor Forum , Volume 26 (2): 3 – May 1, 2017
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699813 NLFXXX10.1177/1095796017699813New Labor ForumYang and Pottenger research-article2017 Working Class Voices New Labor Forum 2017, Vol. 26(2) 91 –93 A Home Care Worker Copyright © 2017, The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Reprints and permissions: Battles Cancer and sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav https://doi.org/10.1177/1095796017699813 DOI: 10.1177/1095796017699813 Helps Pass Overtime journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf Protection Emma Yang with Kressent Pottenger Keywords immigrant workers, women workers, worker centers, health care, debt I am a home care worker, and when I was taking happens for a reason, and I just had to trust in care of an elderly client who was bedbound, I God. She said everything would be fine. So I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I was undoc- called up my family and told them the news. umented and did not have any health insurance. But I had a doctor friend from my hometown in I was only making enough for the Philippines, and sometimes I would go visit me to survive and to send some him and have myself checked and do some lab money home to my children in the tests. I had my mammogram annually at Philippines. Presbyterian Hospital [in Los Angeles]. These were free because I got them in October when But

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