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Steven Marchese: To
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I want to recognize
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honored to bring forward
our mayor, Katie Wilson,

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who helped in many
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I working on labor standards,

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but we're excited
that she helped lead

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this legislative charge to
get us to where we are today.

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Mayor Wilson, please

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join us. [APPLAUSE]

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Katie B. Wilson:
[FOREIGN] Good afternoon.

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[APPLAUSE] I'm going to

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try to talk a little
more slowly than

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I normally do to help
with the interpretation.

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Thank you, Director Marchese
for that introduction,

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and thank you all for
being here today.

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Thank you to everyone who
has made this day possible,

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including the Domestic
Workers Standards Board,

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the Seattle Domestic
Workers Coalition,

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and member organizations
Casa Latina,

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Working Washington Right Center,

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the Nanny Collective,
Alla Garifuna hand in

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hand and the Harry Bridges
Center for Labor Studies

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at the University of Washington.

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Your organizing, your
research, your persistence.

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This legislation exists
because you kept it going.

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Thank you, as well, to

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Council member Alexis
Mercedes Rink,

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who sponsored and shepherded

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this legislation through
counsel with real conviction.

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[APPLAUSE] Domestic work is

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the work that makes all
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It's childcare, it's elder care.

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It's the quiet, constant labor

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that lets people leave
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knowing that our homes and
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Yet for generations,

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this work has been
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Domestic workers labored without

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the basic protections the
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Today, we take another step
toward fixing this injustice.

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[APPLAUSE] In 2019,

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Seattle became the first city in

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our nation to pass
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Bill of Rights [APPLAUSE]

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and we didn't stop
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We built the Domestic Workers
Standards Board because we

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understood that real change

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isn't just written
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It is organized, sustained

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and pushed forward by
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That board's advocacy is why
we are here again today.

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This time to make the ordinance

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even stronger,
written agreements,

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retained pay records,
advanced notice of

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termination and stronger
protection against retaliation.

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These aren't just line items,

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they are the difference between
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between vulnerability
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This is also part of

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a larger commitment
that I have made to

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this city that Seattle will be

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a place that works for the
people who make it run,

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not just for some, for
everyone who shows up,

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does the work, and asks
only to be treated fairly.

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We build affordability in

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this city not by asking
workers to accept less,

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but by standing beside them,

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as they organize for fair
treatment and fair pay.

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Domestic workers, organizers,
parents, family caregivers,

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and responsible employers
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you are all part of this fight.

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As your mayor and
as a working mom,

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I am committed to
being an ally to

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workers fighting to be
paid what they're owed,

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fighting for
dignified careers and

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fighting for a better
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A few more thank you's are okay.

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[APPLAUSE] A few more
thank yous are in order.

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To the domestic workers
standard Board co chairs,

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Sylvia Gonzalez and
Bailey Freeman,

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[APPLAUSE] and every member

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who has given their
time to this work.

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To Diana Salazar,

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[APPLAUSE] for her
tireless support

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of this board and
this legislation.

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To Lane Mida,

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sorry if I misprounced
your name.

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[APPLAUSE] Tina Marks and

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Director Steve Marchesi at

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the Office of Labor
Standards for

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carrying this work forward
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[APPLAUSE] A special shout

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out to King County Council
member Teresa Moscata

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who can't join us today,

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but whose leadership created

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Seattle's domestic workers
ordinance in 2018.

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[APPLAUSE] To Representative
Brianna Thomas

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and Senator Rebecca Sullivan.

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[APPLAUSE] Senator
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who sponsored and
passed the statewide

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Domestic Workers Bill
of Rights last session

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[APPLAUSE] which
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to domestic workers
statewide and provided

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momentum for us to revisit our
standards here in Seattle.

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To everyone in this
room who has spent

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years or even decades
organizing for this moment.

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This law is yours as

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much as it is the city's.
Thank you. [APPLAUSE]

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Steven Marchese: Thank you
so much. Mayor Wilson.

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I'd now like to bring up and

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welcome Council member
Alexis Mercedes Rink,

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who was our sponsor
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a longtime advocate for
domestic workers. [APPLAUSE]

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Alexis Mercedes Rinck: Thank
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and thank you, Mayor Wilson,

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and thank you, everyone,

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for your tireless work
to bring us here today.

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Truly, it is an honor
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you all in this amazing moment.

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But before getting into that, I

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want to also
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Hispanic heritage, Ma.
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Now, as your chair of

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the Human Services Labor

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and Economic
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I had the tremendous
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this legislation alongside the
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the Mayor's Office,
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our domestic Labor
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and it was truly an honor
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Thank you for your
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throughout this process.

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[APPLAUSE] We know that domestic
work is essential work,

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and too often it has
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left invisible and without

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proper protections for workers.

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But Seattle and
Washington state have

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a proud history of standing
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and this legislation is

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just another example
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Domestic labor
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fair treatment in the workplace,

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and today Seattle honors the
people whose labor sustains

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each and every one of us and

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reaffirms a very
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When all workers are
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our whole city is stronger.

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With that, I want
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every single person who has been

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a part of building
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Please give yourself
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Thank you for everything you do

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for our city. Thank
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Steven Marchese: Thank you so
much, Council member Rink.

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Now we're going to hear from
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Maria Luisa Cruz, Maria
Luisa, you come up.

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We can hear from you and

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impart the importance
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Maria Luisa Cruz:
[FOREIGN]. [APPLAUSE].

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Steven Marchese:
Maria Luisa [FOREIGN]

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Another round of applause.

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[APPLAUSE] Now we're going

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to hear from one of our hiring
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Jordan, if you can come
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recognize that hiring entities

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are an important
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We count on the hiring
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the rights and support

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the domestic workers that
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We're inviting Jordan to talk

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a little bit about
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Thank you.

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Jordan Goldwarg:
Thank you, Steve.

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[FOREIGN] So good to
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Thank you so much. My
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I serve on the domestic workers

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Standards Board in a
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and so I employ a house
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I want to start just by
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to Mayor Wilson and to

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her staff for all the work
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council member Rink and

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other council staff who
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Thank you to the OLS staff.

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I want to offer a special
thanks to my colleagues on

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the Domestic Workers
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who show what's possible
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workers and employers across
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across race, and
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really show what
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of governance can look like.

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[APPLAUSE] I'm a member
of hand in hand,

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which is a national
organization that

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organizes employers
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In hand in hand,
we have a saying,

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which is that my
home is a workplace.

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My home is a workplace.

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It may not be a
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in the way that we
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but it is where somebody works,

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and that person who works
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the same rights and benefits and

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protections as any
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[APPLAUSE] When I go to
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I expect to have a
written agreement.

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I expect to have a record of

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all the hours that I work
and how much I've been paid,

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and the cleaner who works in

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my home should have
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and these amendments
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Time and time again on
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we hear from employers

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that they want to
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They want to be
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they want to do right
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but they often just don't
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is to do because of

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the invisible nature
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These amendments and the
growing movement that

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accompany it for domestic

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worker rights help to shift that

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and help to give all
employers the resources and

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the education that they need
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With that, I just want to thank

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everybody again for being here

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in a period where there's a lot

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of bad news and difficult news.

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This has been a
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and I hope that we can all take

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advantage of this moment
today to celebrate.

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Thank you. [APPLAUSE]

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Steven Marchese: Thank
you so much, Jordan.

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Now, for the moment we've
all been waiting for,

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we're going to have
Mayor Wilson officially

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sign the amendments into law.

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We're going to get
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Well not.

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[BACKGROUND]

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[APPLAUSE]