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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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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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