Domestic Workers United (DWU) is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all.

Domestic Workers United was founded in 2000 by members of Kalayaan/Women Workers Project of CAAAV, in collaboration with Andolan Organizing South Asian Workers. Filipina domestic workers who are members of CAAAV's Women Workers Project began outreach to domestic workers from the Caribbean and Latin America in 1999, after having done two years of advocacy for individual domestic workers who were underpaid or abused by their employers, because they saw the need for industry standards and a voice for all domestic workers, particularly those who were not being organized. Early on, Andolan members and Women Workers Project members worked together to build DWU as collaborative project to strengthen the power of the domestic workers movement. Today, DWU organizes workers from the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America, and coordinates with  other domestic workers organizations through the NY Domestic Workers Justice Coalition to build power for the entire workforce. In 2007, at the US Social Forum, DWU helped to form the National Domestic Workers Alliance.