Some of New York City's most politically powerful labor leaders yesterday called for higher wages for home health care workers, including City Council speaker Christine C. Quinn. Ms. Quinn was joined by Dennis Rivera, the president of 1199 SEIU United Health Care Workers East, and Roger Toussaint, the president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, and about a dozen other council members.
See "Quinn Joins Union Chiefs in Pressing for Health Workers' Wages", Winnie Hu, The New York Times, January 10, 2006