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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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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 Read more
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