New York City (NYC)

Postal Banking Test In The Bronx Yields No Customers

November 13, 2021 David Dayen, The American Prospect. Educate! Louis DeJoy, New York City (NYC), Postal Banking, US Postal Service

New York City - When the United States Postal Service launched a test program in September allowing people with business or payroll checks to get them loaded onto gift cards at four neighborhood post offices, it was seen as a primitive precursor to a postal banking system. But in order for the test to be successful and mature into a pilot, it has to actually be, well, tested. According to postal employees at Baychester Station in the Bronx, one of four locations nationwide where the test is being carried out, not a single business or payroll check transaction was made between September 13, when the test launched, and October 31. Some union leaders who support the postal banking concept have become frustrated by the selection of Baychester, and the lack of muscle for the project from the USPS.

What The NYC Taxi Drivers On A Hunger Strike Won

November 9, 2021 Errol Louis, Curbed. Resist! Hunger Strike, New York City (NYC), Taxi Drivers, Worker Rights and Jobs

In early November, after 46 days of picketing and 15 days of hunger strike, members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance won what they deserved all along: a measure of relief from the vast debts incurred when the inflated value of their city-issued medallions crashed in recent years. Under a three-way agreement among the NYTWA, the de Blasio administration, and the city’s largest medallion lender, drivers — who owe, on average, $550,000 each — will see their debt written down to $170,000 and amortized so that monthly payments don’t exceed $1,122. Most important, the city will guarantee each of these rescue loans in the event of default. It was only fair that the city agree to back the loans

Elections And The Illusion Of Black Political Power

November 6, 2021 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black Politics, Democrats, Electoral Politics, New York City (NYC)

Sadly, the hard work of politics has been subordinated to elections. Black politics are diminished in a system that creates a white people’s party and a black people’s party. Keeping republicans, the white party, out of power is seen as the end all and be all of political action. When the democrats are represented by Black office holders the deception is magnified. The demonization of even a little bit of progressive talk is a sign that the system lives in fear that someone may come along who will actually fight for change. A mass movement is an existential threat.

The Second-Largest Strike In The US Is Happening In New York City

November 4, 2021 Choire Sicha, New York Magazine. Resist! Education, New York City (NYC), Strike, Unions

Last week, Columbia students marched into the classroom of the university’s president, Lee Bollinger. (They like to call him PrezBo.) The class he was teaching at the time? “Freedom of Speech and Press,” according to the Columbia Spectator, which also noted that Bollinger left through the side door. It was another skirmish in a conflict that has pitted the school against a group made up primarily of unionized undergraduate and graduate teaching and research assistants. On Wednesday at 12:01 a.m., these student workers went on strike. According to an ongoing count kept by labor reporter Jonah Furman, it is the second-largest such action happening in the United States right now, second only to the dramatic John Deere strike.

Workers Applaud Signing Of Labor Peace Agreement

October 28, 2021 District Council 37, Portside. Create! Labor Peace Agreement, New York City (NYC), Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Following months of advocating on behalf of workers in the non-profit sector, District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido today applauded the signing of Intro. 2252. The bill, which Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law today, requires city human services contractors to enter into labor peace agreements within 90 days of receiving or amending a city contract – affording the workers the ability to organize without interference from their employers. The new law represents a sea change in how labor unions can proceed in organizing and developing collective bargaining agreements with private sector and non-profit organizations under contract with the City. “Labor peace is now the law of the land – and it’s been a long time coming,” said Henry Garrido, Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME.

Amazon Warehouse Workers In Staten Island File Petition For Union Election

October 27, 2021 Catherine Thorbecke, ABC. Organize! Amazon, Labor Movement, New York City (NYC), Worker Rights and Jobs

Kayla Blado, the press secretary for the National Labor Relations Board, confirmed to ABC News on Monday that the union petition was filed in the NLRB's Region 29. The petition must now go through the NLRB's formal representation election process before a vote will be held. The group of workers, which calls themselves the Amazon Labor Union, are being led by a former fulfillment center employee of the e-commerce giant, Chris Smalls. He became the face of the labor movement at Amazon when he was fired under contentious circumstances at the beginning of the pandemic after organizing a demonstration over working conditions amid the health crisis. The milestone comes some six months after a high-profile union bid by Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who sought to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union.

Left Labor Project, New York City Closing Statement

October 6, 2021 Left Labor Project, Portside. Organize! Labor Movement, New York City (NYC), Socialism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Left Labor Project was formed in 2008 by activists in New York City unions, with the goal of influencing the broad labor movement to the left. It brought together folks who had been deeply involved in labor, and other social movements as well. It was socialist, but inclusive of people from different groups and tendencies on the left. It was diverse, and included members of a variety of unions. No unions had official affiliation to LLP, however. There were several features of LLP that distinguished it on the left and in the labor movement. It was mostly older activists, at a time before Occupy and the second coming of DSA as a predominantly under-40 group, but it sought to expand broadly via phone outreach and email. And it was a deliberate attempt to bring together members of socialist groups which have historically run on parallel, but not convergent paths.

Mayor De Blasio’s Epic Rikers Island Failure

October 3, 2021 Glenn E. Martin, New York Daily News. Educate! Bill De Blasio, Criminal Justice and Prisons, New York City (NYC), Rikers

In 2017, a year after launching the campaign, the mayor was brought to his knees by the unavoidable momentum built by the campaign. He begrudgingly conceded that Rikers needed to close. But the devil was in the details. The mayor punted responsibility by outlining a scantily detailed 10-year plan to close the complex of eight jails on Rikers Island and build four skyscraper jail facilities in locations around the city.

Report: NYC Food Delivery Workers Face Low Pay, High Risks

September 25, 2021 Ben Yakas, Gothamist. Educate! Gig Workers, Health Care, New York City (NYC), Worker Rights and Jobs

New York City's 65,000+ food delivery workers were celebrated as essential workers throughout the pandemic. But according to a damning new study, they aren't actually being treated that way—instead, they routinely earn low wages well below New York's minimum wage, lack basic labor and employment protections, and face dangerous working conditions on the streets of NYC. The report released this week, which was conducted by advocacy group Worker’s Justice Project in partnership with Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, is a four-month-long survey (December 2020-April 2021) of 500 app-based workers throughout the five boroughs, many of whom work for the likes of Grubhub, Doordash and UberEats.

Met Gala Protest: Interview With An Activist

September 20, 2021 Left Voice. Resist! AOC, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Met Gala, New York City (NYC)

A photo-journalist and activist who was at the Met Gala told Left Voice about the brutal police attack on protesters and gives a perspective on AOC’s participation in the event. The Met Gala, a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute that is also a gathering of celebrities, politicians, and the wealthy and well connected took place on September 13. The bourgeois press coverage focused on the celebrity spectacle, nearly ignoring the horrific police attack on abolitionist activists protesting outside the event, many of whom were arrested. Left Voice spoke with Prince, a photo-journalist and activist who was on the ground.

The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get

September 11, 2021 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! 9/11, New York City (NYC), US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

I was in Times Square in New York City shortly after the second plane banked and plowed into the South Tower. The crowd looking up at the Jumbotron gasped in dismay at the billowing black smoke and the fireball that erupted from the tower. There was no question now that the two attacks on the twin towers were acts of terrorism. The earlier supposition, that perhaps the pilot had a heart attack or lost control of the plane when it struck the North Tower seventeen minutes earlier, vanished with the second attack. The city fell into a collective state of shock. Fear palpitated throughout the streets. Would they strike again? Where? Was my family safe? Should I go to work? Should I go home? What did it mean? Who would do this? Why? The explosions and collapse of the towers, however, were, to me, intimately familiar. I had seen it before.

Advocates Urge NYC To Be Nuclear Weapons Free

August 7, 2021 Erik McGregor. Resist! New York City (NYC), Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Wars and Militarism

In commemoration of the August 6 and August 9, 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, New York City-based nuclear disarmament advocates assembled outside the Municipal Building on August 6, 2021 to deliver a letter to Council Speaker Corey Johnson urging him to bring NYC nuclear disarmament legislation, Resolution 976 & Introduction 1621, to the floor for a vote. The site of the gathering is rich with history, because the development of the atomic bombs began across the street from City Hall at the Manhattan Project headquarters, at 270 Broadway.

Parks For The People

August 2, 2021 Olivia Riggio, The Indypendent. Organize! COVID-19, New York City (NYC), Parks, wealth inequality

It’s a mid-July evening in Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn and people are out, enjoying the final few hours of daylight. The sounds of basketballs bouncing and sneakers squeaking echo in the nearby courts. Some people sit placidly on benches, others walk their dogs along the paths. Parents chase children teetering on their bicycles and teenagers skateboard over the cobblestone pavement. A group of 20-somethings sits talking on a blanket in the grass, which, in certain patches, is overgrown and littered with soda cans and plastic bags. Over by the volleyball court, a match has drawn a rowdy crowd along its perimeter. Maria Hernandez Park may not be a tourist destination, but it is a staple for the surrounding neighborhood, which is largely Hispanic and working class.

Actions Demand NY Close Groups Backing Settler Genocide In Palestine

August 1, 2021 Liberation News. Resist! Israel, New York City (NYC), Palestine, Protests

In the morning they picketed the Long Island home of Justin “Yaacov” Fauci, who moved from New York to invade and steal Palestinian lands including the Al-Kurd family home. He became notorious in a video that went viral of him publicly admitting his crime when he stated, “If I don’t steal it, someone else is gonna,” as he invaded the Palestinian home. In the afternoon, the advocates marched in Brooklyn, NY and picketed the offices of New York Attorney General Letitia James to draw attention to New York-based Zionist nonprofits helping settlers – like Long Island-born Fauci – to participate in the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians.

New Yorkers Say They’ve Been Ignored In Stop-And-Frisk Fight

August 1, 2021 Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press. Resist! Law, New York City (NYC), Police, Stop and Frisk

Eight years after a judge ruled New York City police violated the constitution by stopping, questioning and frisking mostly Black and Hispanic people on the street en masse, people in communities most affected by such tactics say they've been shut out of the legal process to end them. Lawyers for plaintiffs in two landmark stop-and-frisk lawsuits said in court papers Thursday that community stakeholders have had “very little contact” in the last three years with the court-appointed monitor overseeing reforms and that reports he's issued don't reflect their experiences.

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