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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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Hundreds of Home Attendants Demand Speaker Adams Bring the “No More 24” Act to a Vote
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 Read more
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Op-Ed: Unite with Newly-Arriving Immigrants to Abolish the Underclass
The Indypendent By Tosh Anderson, John Antush, and Margaret Lee Calls for more immigration to lower wages and stem inflation or those for less immigration distract from the real problem: the criminalization of undocumented workers that is dividing the working class. In response to the arrival of nearly 40,000 asylum seekers cynically bussed from border Read more
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