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. 

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.

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, Ain’t I a Woman organizer Jihye Song talks about the ugly legacy NYC Council Speaker Adrienne Adams is creating for herself by ignoring calls to put the "No More 24" bill on the floor for a vote.

By Bob Hennelly

On this week’s episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re talking about the Triangle Factory Fire and its legacy, UAW Non-Profit Legal Service lawyers on strike, and honoring our monumental women.

March 25,  2024, is the  113th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire in Greenwich Village that killed 146 mostly young immigrant female garment workers and launched the worker safety and labor movements. 

By Kevin Van Meter

A slim volume by London-based organizers Lydia Hughes and Jamie Woodcock, Troublemaking: Why You Should Organize Your Workplace, released in 2023 from Verso Books, draws upon workers movements in Britain, India, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, across Europe, and the United States. “Being a troublemaker,” the authors argue, “is about trying to build power at work. Building power is always a process. It requires bringing workers together, developing confidence and discerning ways to win.”

By Ryn Gargulinski

Get a secure job. Work yourself to the bone. Be loyal, trustworthy and responsible to your employer – and you’ll be rewarded in the end.

And if you believe all that, I got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

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.

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites Video, New York City Council Member Christopher Marte lays out how the ongoing failure to pass "No More 24" legislation [Intro. 615] in the City Council is jeopardizing the future of home care for those who will need it most.

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?”

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.

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.

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, Zoe Hu, chair of the Professional Staff Congress’ Graduate Center calls the mandatory 24-hour shifts home health aides are forced to work a “crime” — and says every worker and union in NYC needs to stand in solidarity with them.

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. 

By Joe Maniscalco

In this Work-Bites video, NYC Council Member Chris Marte challenges the City Council's so-called "progressive" bona fides, while denouncing the legislative body's continuing inaction on ending mandatory 24-hour work days for home health aides.

By Bob Hennelly

At the end of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ weekly media availability on March 19, decorum went out the window as photographers swarmed him in the hunt for the image that might capture the essence of what had just gone down during the high stakes press conference.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of the Stuck Nation Labor Radio Hour, we’re honoring the life of Labor Historian Jane LaTour, author of “Sisters in the Brotherhoods,” and we’re also examining the enduring Gender Pay Gap.

By Joe Maniscalco

Nope. The hearing ostensibly called to decide if AFSCME President Lee Saunders acted appropriately in taking over control of the DC 37 Retirees Association and suspending its officers in February has only sparked more questions about the contentious action and the legitimacy of the subsequent hearing process itself.

By Phil Cohen

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy – William Shakespeare

During the spring of 1995, ACTWU (now Workers United) scheduled a blitz of nonmembers at the unionized Cone Mills textile plant in Greensboro, North Carolina. Organizers, accompanied by an activist from one of Cone’s three union shops, would be issued house-call packets containing addresses and information regarding workers that would be visited in specified neighborhoods.

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.

By Steve Wishnia

Seeking concessions from hundreds of New York City building-service workers, the trade group representing Bronx landlords has threatened to terminate its four-year contract with 32BJ SEIU — but it has agreed to delay doing so for 30 days beyond the original deadline of March 31