1.      It’s about good parenting – strong, secure, healthy care providers means strong children, families & communities.
2.      I want building the new little souls and bodies of our children to be as valued and as compensated as building the roads and buildings in our communities.
3.      I want my daughters Olive and Juniper to learn and be a part of building a loving, just society where ALL work – especially women’s work — is valued.
4.      I love and deeply appreciate our childcare provider, Xiao Ying, who has partnered with our family and friends to help raise our children. She has cared for our kids with grace, thoughtfulness, mad skills, love, and much, much laughter.
5.      It’s about providing standards for those employers who want to do the right thing, and to those employers who DON’T want to do the right thing.
6.      Workers, like domestic workers — who have been excluded far too long from labor protections – are the new, emerging majority of workers.  Building dignity for workers builds dignity for our family, friends, and ourselves!
7.      I want to honor my aunts and uncles who toiled in restaurants, work hard despite lack of work papers, who told me many stories of hardship, and gave me lectures on “how lucky I am.”
8.      It’s about expanding opportunities and dignity for ALL, not just fighting over the crumbs.  It’s amazing to see communities that are far too often pit against each other – seniors, house cleaners, people with disabilities, home attendants, parents, child care providers – come together to support domestic workers rights and protect Medicaid.
9.      I want to give Governor Brown the opportunity to sign historic legislation and show Californians that he can do the right thing.
10. I want to give the people of California a chance to DO something – #BeTheHelp and support the passage of a piece of historic legislation that we can all be proud of! Sign here: http://t.co/SBlZlwtI

Mimi Ho is a member of Hand in Hand: Domestic Employers Alliance.  She is a loving mother to 2 daughters and a proud employer of a domestic worker. 

This post is part of a blog carnival on the CA Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights. To support domestic workers, sign the petition here: http://www.domesticworkers.org/