This week, New York State made history by being the first in the U.S. to pass a law providing labor protections to domestic workers (i.e. people who work in childcare, house keeping, and eldercare). Having previously been excluded from labor laws, this is a tremendous victory for the roughly 200,000 domestic workers in New York City.

At CBST, we are a community that includes people who have worked in others’ homes, descendants of domestic workers, as well as employers of domestic workers—given our complex demographics, what do we make of this? One of the biggest ...