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Fight to End 24-Hour Shifts Featured in New York Times
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… Read more
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Hunger Strike Announcement
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… Read more
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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… Read more
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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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