NMASS member featured in New York Times coverage of our fight to end the 24-hour workday for homecare workers. Valeria Guerrero, 63, a former home care aide from Honduras who worked 24-hour shifts for over 20 years, said she averaged three to four hours of sleep a night. She blames her worsening diabetes on her…

Home Care Workers Announce Plan to Hunger Strike Against the 24-hour Workday and Speaker Adams’ Support of Violence Against Women of Color in NYC Spectrum News Coverage On Wednesday, January 24, home care workers and workers of all backgrounds convened at City Hall to demand that Speaker Adams stop supporting the 24-hour workday. Protesters condemned…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When: Wednesday, April 12, noon Where: City Hall Park (Broadway and Park Place) Join us on Wednesday and help us spread the word! RSVP here On April 12, hundreds of home care workers and workers from across the city will converge on City Hall to demand City Council Speaker, Adrienne Adams, bring the No More…