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At New York’s City Hall yesterday, home healthcare workers rallied to demand that “the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation enter contracts only with home care agencies that provide a living wage.” Some healthcare workers make just $6.75 an hour with inadequate health insurance, sick leave, and vacation days.

Senator John Edwards of North Carolina:

All they ask is to be treated with some level of dignity and respect.

They might even settle for decent wages and benefits.

There’s some give and take when it comes to good working conditions vs. salary. Without a balance between the two, no one would be willing to continue working at healthcare jobs that require so much compassion, emotional strength, and pure physical labor.

If you had to choose between the two, would you rather have respect or a higher salary?

WCBS-TV, May 10, 2006

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