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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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Watch: Striking is the Most Powerful Tool Working People Have for Change

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, Denise Romero Gonzalez, striking administrative assistant with Mobilization for Justice and the Legal Services Staff Association (LSSA), UAW Local 2320, calls striking the most powerful tool for change working people have — and urges solidarity with NYC home health aides forced to work 24-hour shifts.

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Watch: The ‘Unbelievable Moral Failure’ to Pass ‘No More 24’ Legislation

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, NYC Taxi Workers Alliance President Bhairavi Desai denounces the New York City Council's "unbelievable moral failure" to pass legislation protecting home health aides from mandatory 24-hour work shifts, and pledges solidarity with the mostly older women of color being exploited. 

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WATCH: Wendell Potter on how Wall Street’s Greed Threatens Your Health

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On this episode of Labor This Week with Host Mark Harrison, former healthcare industry insider turned traditional Medicare advocate Wendell Potter, talks about how “Wall Street’s greed” is now determining “whether or not we get the care our doctors say we need” — or “even the power to see the doctors of our choice.”

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WATCH: NYC Organization of Public Service Retirees President Reacts to Judge Frank Decision

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New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees President Marianne Pizzitola talks to Labor This Week host Mark Harrison about today’s injunction against the City of New York’s plans to strip municipal retirees of their traditional Medicare health insurance coverage and push them into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage program — a move that NYS Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank said, would result in “irreparable harm.”

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Watch: NYC Retirees Warn — Union Leaders Threaten to ‘Destroy Labor as We Know it’

By Joe Maniscalco

Union leaders backing the privatization of traditional Medicare benefits may appear oblivious to what they’re doing to the lives of municipal retirees, but do they understand what their doing to the labor movement overall? According to retirees fighting privatization in New York City — they’re going to “destroy labor as we know it” and it’s up to retirees to “organize and protect labor.”

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WATCH: Why Battling Medicare Advantage Has to Be a National Fight!

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On this episode of “Labor This Week,” host Mark Harrison welcomes Marianne Pizzitola, president of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees and Jeff Johnson, co-president of the Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action in Washington State, who talk about how the coast-to-coast drive to strip municipal retirees of their traditional Medicare benefits is actually all part of a powerful nationwide agenda to further privatize healthcare throughout this country.

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Watch: ‘This Is Working Ep. 7 - Being a Pet Care Provider Will Break Your Heart…

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Being the leader of the pack certainly has its perks. But as the protagonist of Jennifer Bateman Grace’s latest installment of ‘This Is Working’ relates, it can also tear your freakin’ heart out and trample it on the ground — especially around the holidays. But it’s all in a day’s work for the working class. Enjoy!

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