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New York City Home Care Workers Announce Hunger Strike On Mamdani’s Watch

April 13, 2026 Joe Maniscalco, Work-Bites. , , , ,
New York City home care workers announced Wednesday they will start a hunger strike on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s watch beginning next week if promised City Council legislation ending mandatory round-the-clock shifts in the industry isn’t brought to the floor for a vote. “We have been here for more than a month and we have’t seen the mayor,” home care workers rallying outside City Hall said through an interpreter on Apr. 8. “They all made the promise. We will not wait again. We call on everyone, come back April 13, we continue the sit-in—and April 16 we go on hunger strike!” City Council Speaker Julie Menin [D-5th District] pledged to bring Intro. 303—the No More 24 bill—to the floor for a vote when she met with home care workers on Mar. 19—the second day of their latest sit-in outside the gates of City Hall.

15 Arrested In Anti-ICE Passover Takeover Of Palantir’s Lobby

April 7, 2026 Dean Moses, AM NY. , , , ,
Fifteen protesters participating in a special Passover seder condemning ICE operations were cuffed in Manhattan on Monday night after the participants occupied the lobby of Palantir’s headquarters and refused to leave. The hours-long event began earlier in the day, around 5 p.m. on April 6, at Union Square for the sixth night of Passover and was held by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice for a “Seder in the Streets.” Attended by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a host of other elected officials, protesters looked to condemn President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown.

Faculty Fight Anti-Union Tactics At St. John’s University In New York

April 4, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. , , ,
Sixty-two years ago, St. John’s University (SJU) in New York City became the site of the first major faculty strike in U.S. history — a year-long conflict that followed the firing of 33 teachers, including three priests, without due process. Now, the struggle over labor conditions has forced the faculty to once again mobilize, a move precipitated by the current college administration’s abrupt announcement that it will no longer recognize two faculty unions or continue negotiations to hash out a new contract. St. John’s president, Rev. Brian J. Shanley, and Provost and Senior Vice President Simon Geir Møller, told the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) that the move was necessary to give the college “the flexibility required to innovate … and deliver on our promise to our students.”

Grassroots Campaign That Pushed Drone Company Out Of Brooklyn

March 29, 2026 Joseph Mogul, Truthout. , , ,
On the morning of February 11, the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), a non-profit landlord responsible for developing the Brooklyn Navy Yard, convened a closed-doors meeting. One item of business concerned the lease of Easy Aerial, an AI drone manufacturer with material ties to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Israeli military, and one of 550 businesses housed inside of the city-owned industrial hub. Meanwhile, 30 community members with the grassroots campaign Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard (DBNY) occupied the lobby of Navy Yard Building 77, where Easy Aerial is headquartered.

Judge Affirms Maduro and Flores’ ‘Right To Defend Themselves Is Paramount’

March 26, 2026 Gloria Guillo, Popular Resistance. , , , ,
The pre-trial conference of kidnapped and incarcerated political prisoners Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and first lady Cilia Flores was held on Thursday, March 26 at the Southern District Court in Lower Manhattan, New York. The defendants were taken hostage in an early morning raid on January 3 by the U.S. government’s Delta Force during an illegal assault on a Caracas Venezuela military installation where the couple were resting. Their arraignment was held on January 5 where they both pleaded not guilty to charges including narco-terrorism and drug trafficking.

Solidarity With The NYU Contract Faculty Strike

March 24, 2026 Olivia Wood, Left Voice. , , ,
As of 11:00 a.m. on Monday, March 23, roughly 950 contract faculty at New York University (NYU) are on strike, demanding higher wages, better job security, and various protections, including stronger academic freedom provisions. NYU Contract Faculty United (CFU) voted to unionize in early 2024, joining their adjunct faculty, graduate worker, and academic staff colleagues in the UAW. Undergraduate workers also voted to join the UAW later that same year.  NYU is in the top 1 percent of wealthiest universities in the country and the second-largest private landowner in New York City, after Columbia University. 

New York City Teachers, Community Demand AI Moratorium In Schools

March 18, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , ,
New York, NY – On March 14, outside the Martin Luther King Educational Campus in Lincoln Square, unionized teachers, parents, students and community members, led by the Movement of Rank and File Educators/United Federation of Teachers Caucus (MORE Caucus) in collaboration with the organization Climate Families, held a protest against the NYC Department of Education’s push for AI in public school curriculum. Inside, Kamar Samuels, the new chancellor of NYC Public Schools who is part of the push for more AI, was holding a community town hall meeting with parents, students and teachers.

Nurse Strike’s Focus Moves To Manhattan’s Richest Hospital Complex

February 14, 2026 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. , , , ,
The largest and longest nurses strike in the city’s history will continue at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospitals after nurses there decisively rejected the hospital chain’s contract offer 3,099 to 867. About 10,500 other nurses will start returning to work Saturday, ending the strike at three Manhattan hospitals run by Mt. Sinai and at Montefiore Medical Center facilities in the Bronx. Those nurses overwhelmingly voted to approve contracts that maintained staffing ratio language, beat back additional health care costs, and added some protection from workplace violence and misuse of artificial intelligence.

Nurses Reject Deal Without Enforceable Staffing Ratios

February 12, 2026 Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha. , , , ,
Nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday, Feb. 11, to reject a tentative contract agreement and continue their strike, now in its 31st day. Out of roughly 4,200 eligible nurses, 3,099 voted against the deal, and 867 voted in favor — a 78% rejection that repudiated hospital management and directly challenged the union’s top leadership. The rejected agreement included the same 12% raise over three years that nurses at Mount Sinai and Montefiore ratified. But it did not include enforceable staffing ratio language — the central demand of the strike and the provision that makes the NewYork-Presbyterian fight different from the other hospitals.

Striking New York Nurses Brave Subzero Cold

February 5, 2026 A. J. Schumann and Sarah Hughes, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Fifteen thousand New York nurses are more than three weeks into their strike for a fairer contract. Yesterday members of the New York State Nurses Association braved below-freezing temperatures to march across the Brooklyn Bridge and deliver a message to City Hall. Hundreds of nurses joined together in Cadman Plaza Park, clad in cherry-red NYSNA beanies and holding aloft signs that read “Safe Staffing Saves Lives,” “Quality Healthcare for All,” and “Hospital Execs Literally Make Us Sick." As their procession stretched out across the bridge, chanting nurses were treated to applause from passersby and blaring honks from supportive onlookers below.

The Chakraborty Shooting And The Myth Of Police Reform

February 4, 2026 Mike Pappas, Left Voice. , , ,
22-year-old Jabez Chakraborty’s family had called for medical help for their son in Queens, New York City. Instead of medical responders, the state sent armed police, who shot him multiple times, leaving him in critical condition. After shooting a family’s son in front of them, do you think the New York Police Department (NYPD) cops were apologetic, helping the family and their son as much as possible? Of course not. In a statement released by the family, they report the cops interrogated them, demanding their cell phones (presumably to make sure there was no video evidence of their actions) and demanding the family come with them to the precinct with them instead of the hospital.

New Yorkers Occupy A Hilton Hotel To Demand ICE And Feds Out

January 29, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , ,
New York, NY — Over 1000 New Yorkers took the streets on January 27 after the execution of Alex Pretti by Border Patrol in Minneapolis a few days before. Since Pretti’s murder, hundreds of thousands of people around the country have mobilized despite a winter storm to defend their neighbors and fight back against racist attacks by federal agents. Organizers from New York Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NYAARPR) began with a rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Lower Manhattan. NYAARPR Chair Shivani Ishwar reminded the crowd to “not forget the other lives that have been cruelly extinguished by ICE.”

Four Ways Zohran Mamdani Can End Financial Support For Israeli Settlements

January 24, 2026 Nerdeen Kiswani, Mondoweiss. , , ,
When Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral race of New York City, many believed his election would transform not just municipal policy but how the city confronts injustice, at home and abroad. Many were inspired when, as an assemblyman in May 2023 at the CUNY School of Law, Mamdani introduced the “Not On Our Dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence Act” (NOOD Act), a bill that would have prohibited New York‑registered nonprofits from using tax‑exempt status to fund Israeli settlement expansion and other violations of international law. 

The Met Union Wins Biggest Election In Museum’s History

January 17, 2026 Katie Bird, Left Voice. , , ,
If something feels different the next time you visit the Met, that’s because it is. On Thursday, January 13, The Met Union won our election with UAW Local 2110. Of more than 700 workers who voted, a decisive margin of 76 percent were in favor. Our bargaining unit will be made up of nearly 900 workers across departments, making this the biggest union win in the museum’s more than 150-year history. This week, the Met has been a happier workplace than I’ve seen it since I started in 2021, when the museum was still closed to the public because of COVID-19.

Nurse Explains What’s At Stake in NYC Hospital Strike

January 17, 2026 The Indypendent. , , , ,
Maggie Latona is one of more than 15,000 nurses in the New York State Nurses Association currently on strike. She is also a member of the union’s Contract Action Team which has engaged with members to determine what they want to fight for. She joined “The Indypendent News Hour”, our weekly radio show, on Tuesday from the picket line outside Mount Sinai Hospital, to discuss the nurses’ strike, what’s at stake in their fight, and how patient care is impacted by the current conditions nurses are working under. Latona also detailed the ways in which some of the wealthiest hospital networks in the city, like Mount Sinai, New York Presbyterian and Montefiore, are overcharging patients and leaving their nursing staff without adequate protection or support.
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