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NMASS 2023 Accomplishments
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How Long Can NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams Say ‘Modern Day Slavery’ isn’t Her Problem?
By Joe Maniscalco for Work-Bites. Advocates pushing for passage of the “No More 24” bill in the New York City Council put 200 or more people in the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, Nov. 16, loudly demanding Speaker Adrienne Adams stop blocking the measure or step down. They promise to be back and be…
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National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) does not endorse Arkdadkiusz Tomaszewski for City Council District 39
We demand the City Council: Vote to end 24-Hour Workdays in New York City. Recently a candidate named Arkadiusz T. Tomaszewski who is running on a right-leaning platform to not mask or vaccinate in Brooklyn City Council District 39, appropriated our National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) name and affiliation for his printed and digital campaign…
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US Immigration Policy Is Designed to Divide the Working Class
TRUTHOUT Op-Ed / November 2, 2023 A policy that legalizes some immigrants and criminalizes others pits workers against each other for employers’ benefit. By JoAnn Lum & Shirley Lung Recently, members at our New York City-based workers center, who include undocumented Indigenous Mexican restaurant workers and Puerto Rican grandmothers who are residents of public housing, have been asking…
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Beyond Indigenous People’s Day — Join With Indigenous Workers Organizing Against Systemic Racism Here at the Heart of Imperialism, in the “Empire State”
Columbus’ conquests cleared the way for the later introduction of capitalist relations and imperialist domination by the United States of America. After centuries of dispossession, generational poverty, and discrimination, descendants of Indigenous people and African slaves still struggle under the same racism of this system. However, they are also resisting, leading the way in building…
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What is Wage Theft If Not Violence?!
On May 25, NMASS members testified before the New York State Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary And Standing Committee on Labor, urging them to support the Securing Wages Earned Against Theft (SWEAT) Act (S.1977/A.46). The NYC Hospitality Alliance and its president Melba Wilson successfully blocked SWEAT from passing again this year, protecting employers who…
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Join the Wednesday Picket at Swagat Restaurant
Workers at Swagat Restaurant worked 80 hours per week making as little as $3.33/hour. Celebrated chef and owners Lala Sharma and Abishek Sharma pressured them to work harder and faster and owe them more than $1,000,000.00! Recently, because workers are organizing and successfully rallying the community to support a boycott of their businesses until they…
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NYC City Council Speaker Adams Is a Danger to Our Democracy
Recently, immigrant women home care workers rallied at City Hall calling on Speaker Adams to bring to a vote a bill that would end the inhumane 24-hour workday. Adams attacked the Int 175 bill sponsor Christopher Marte for participating in a rally with the workers and community he represents rather than staying holed up inside…
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Workers invite all New Yorkers to join them on May 1st, 12 noon, outside City Hall, to stop racism, stop corruption and stop wage theft
Last Friday, April 14th, home attendants wrapped up their rally and 3-day sit-in with a rousing denunciation of New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams’ refusal to end the racist violence of 24-hour shifts and to bring the No More 24 Act (Intro 175) to a vote. The Speaker had responded to the workers’ demands…
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Op-Ed: Once the Most Secure, Public Sector Workers are Now Being Left Out To Dry
The Indypendent By Steph Kranes, Juliet Emerson-Colvin, John Antush & Anne Kochman New York City has become a vanguard of the kind of collaboration between government and union leaders that is driving labor conditions downward. Retired city workers are outraged. Mayor Adams has finalized a shift that will move 250,000 retirees to a privately-run Medicare Advantage…
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