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‘No More 24’ Bill Would Pass in NYC If Put on the Floor For a Vote, Lead Sponsor Says On May Day

By Joe Maniscalco

Intro. 615 — the bill aimed at freeing local home health aides in New York City from mandatory 24-hour workdays — has enough votes to sail through the New York City Council if it were put on the floor for a vote today. All Speaker Adrienne Adams has to do is get out of the way and let it happen.

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NYC Retirees Journey to Albany! Press the Fight Against Medicare dis-Advantage!

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City municipal retirees fighting to retain the Medicare coverage they were promised when they entered civil service rode Albany-bound buses for more than 150 miles and plied the halls of state power for over two hours on April 15, all in support of legislation aimed at protecting what they’ve already earned.

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EMS Bills Spark Debate About ‘Plantation’ System At FDNY

By Bob Hennelly

Unions representing the mostly women and people of color who comprise the majority of FDNY EMS first responders in New York City tell Work-Bites efforts by the City Council to better protect the workforce from deadly attacks on the job only underscores the pay and benefit disparity between them — and the mostly white males who constitute the bulk of FDNY firefighters.

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UAW Flies Flag in Solidarity with Anti-Smoking Casino Workers in Atlantic City

By Bob Hennelly 

For years, with a surreal break during the COVID, Atlantic City’s casino workers have been forced to endure life-threatening secondhand smoke because New Jersey’s Democratic machine, the casino operators, and the largest union representing casino workers were all worried enforcing the state’s 2006 Smoke-Free Air Act would hurt business.

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‘No More 24’ Advocates Vow to Surround New York’s City Hall

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City home health aides fighting to pass legislation ending mandatory 24-hour workdays “paused” their five-day hunger strike outside the gates of City Hall on Monday, promising to keep coming back before finally returning with enough outraged workers to encircle the local seat of government on May Day. 

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Watch: ‘Stop Trying to Hide,’ DSA Tells NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, Marian Jones, political educator coordinator with the NYC-DSA Socialist Feminist Working Group, calls out NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams' for blocking "No More 24" legislation, saying it's time to support caregivers and stop hiding behind the idea that the state alone should address mandatory 24-hour workdays.

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NYC Democrats to Speaker Adams: Demand the State Take Action on 24-Hour Workdays

By Joe Maniscalco

As recently as last week, New York City Council Speaker [D-28th District] Adrienne Adams was repeating her longstanding claim that she supports home health aides fighting to “improve their working conditions” — but that actually ending the 24-hour workdays they’re forced to endure is a state issue, and, therefore, out of her hands.

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Bronx Building Service Workers Set to Strike!

By Steve Wishnia

Bronx residential-building workers voted March 21 to authorize a strike if the Bronx Realty Advisory Board landlord trade group reopens their contract and demands concessions.

“The BRAB, they’re crying broke,” 32BJ SEIU secretary treasurer John Santos told more than 200 workers at a rally outside the Bronx Supreme Court building. “Are we ready to roll back wages?”

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It’s All Connected: NYC Workers See Link to ‘No More 24’ Hunger Strikers’ Struggle

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams can continue sitting on the “No More 24” bill and saying there’s nothing she can do to stop bosses from forcing home health aides to work around-the-clock — but working class New Yorkers are increasingly connecting the dots about what’s really going on here: lots of kowtowing to the bosses at everyone else’s expense.

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Starbucks Threatens to Shutter its ‘Community Store’ in Trenton

By Bob Hennelly

Courtesy of InsiderNJ

It’s everywhere and impacting everything and yet we rarely discuss it because we have come to accept it as the natural order of things, a kind of Machina ex Deus conveyor belt to a “profitable” tomorrow no matter how miserable that future might be. Yet, we still have free will and when something isn’t working, or it could work better, we have to summon the character to act.

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