Riveting programming like "Downton Abbey" and "Upstairs Downstairs" depicts a world of caring, fair, and?trusting relationships between the elite family and their domestic help.
If that were ever the real situation and some historians of class warfare debate it was, it hasn't been the way things have been for a while.? Reformers, ranging from plaintiff lawyers to legislators, have to investigate how employees who do domestic work are treated. The fall-out from?"The UWS Nanny" alleged murder of two children in her care will make that a high profile issue.
As NEW YORK Magazine reports the nanny?for the Krim family on the Upper?West Side of New York Yoselyn Ortega contends there was tension between her and her employer.? According to the article, her job security was up in the air.? She had been warned that if she didn't improve performance she would be terminated.? This happens every day to many domestic workers.? There is little or no job protection or due process.
The exception could be if they are employed in a position in an organization rather than by individuals.? Often those jobs are unionized.? My mother had been a cleaning lady for?the Jersey City, New Jersey?Board of Education.? From first-hand experience I know she was a?difficult woman.? We were estranged for years. But I also know she did what she was supposed to.? So, I have to assume the cleaning part of her job went okay.? Because there was a union, she was never fired for what I have to assume were poor social skills.? Instead she was transferred.??Finally she seemed to get a hang of it and served long term at my former high school Snyder High.? She retired with a decent pension.?
With the economic so turbulent, domestic work is how even the middle class and the educated are making ends meet.? An acquaintance, forced out of a Fairfield, Connecticut corporate job, became a nanny for one family.? My neighbor, who has?some college,?does day work?as an aide to the elderly and apartment cleaning for individuals.? As an aging Baby Boomer, who had been a 1L at Harvard Law, I turn down pet care jobs in the home because of declining energy level and rising fortunes in my own writing business.? Five years ago, though, I would have grabbed them to supplement what I earn when my boutique was in transition as to the lines of business offered.?? And the bottom line is: When I contract cleaning help, routine and special items like carpets and windows,?for my own apartment, they are at my mercy.?I know that is wrong.? That should not be in America.?
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