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By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, NYC Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai denounces the New York City Council's "unbelievable moral failure" to pass legislation protecting home health aides from mandatory 24-hour work shifts, and pledges solidarity with the mostly older women of color being exploited.