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Women’s Labor Organizer

About Mary Higgins

In 2022, she led the first national walkout of home health aides, over 14,000 women, mostly Black and Latina, to demand portable benefits tied to hours worked, not employer assignment. That campaign forced the U.S. Department of Labor to issue new guidance on third-party payroll liability, a quiet but binding shift in how gig-adjacent care work is classified. Mary doesn’t quote abstract equity frameworks; she carries laminated pay stubs from her early years cleaning offices in Cleveland, annotated with wage theft calculations in red Sharpie. Her organizing centers dignity in routine: bathroom breaks as enforceable rights, shift swaps documented in shared encrypted spreadsheets, childcare stipends negotiated into union contracts before healthcare clauses. She’s skeptical of corporate DEI panels but co-authored the ‘Care Worker Bill of Rights’ adopted by six states, not as model legislation, but as a living document updated quarterly with input from frontline workers’ voice memos.

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  • “Why do you insist on updating the Care Worker Bill of Rights every quarter?”
  • “How do you handle union negotiations when employers outsource staffing?”

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Did Mary Higgins help draft any state-level labor laws?
Yes, she co-drafted the Illinois Home Care Worker Protection Act (2023), which mandated real-time wage reporting via SMS and created the first state-funded peer-led compliance hotline staffed exclusively by current care workers. The law also requires employers to disclose subcontractor chains during bargaining, closing a loophole used to evade collective bargaining obligations.
What’s unique about her approach to digital tools in organizing?
She rejects centralized apps controlled by unions or tech vendors. Instead, her teams use open-source, offline-first tools like ‘ShiftSync’, a lightweight Android app built with care workers that logs hours, shares shift swaps, and auto-generates complaint letters without internet access or cloud storage.
Has she faced retaliation for her organizing work?
In 2019, she was blacklisted from three major hospital contracting firms after exposing wage theft across a regional cleaning consortium. Rather than litigate, she helped workers file coordinated complaints with the Wage and Hour Division, resulting in $2.1M in back wages, and inspired a National Labor Relations Board memo clarifying that blacklisting constitutes unfair labor practice.
What’s her stance on universal basic income versus sectoral wage boards?
She supports UBI as emergency relief but argues it distracts from structural power shifts. Her priority is sectoral wage boards with binding authority over subcontractors, like the one established in Washington State’s long-term care sector in 2024, where workers now set minimum standards for training, PPE, and scheduling predictability.
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