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Bard College Workers Authorize Strike As Contract Talks Stall

August 9, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. , , , ,
Annandale on Hudson, NY - About 110 service and maintenance workers at Bard College voted overwhelmingly in early July to authorize a strike, as contract negotiations reached an impasse following the expiration of their contract at the beginning of the month. The workers, members of SEIU Local 200United representing building maintenance, groundskeeping and environmental services staff, have been bargaining since March. Union leaders say the administration has proposed health insurance concessions and wage increases well below what workers are demanding.

Rochester Nurses Stood With Their Nonunion Co-Workers

July 31, 2026 Will McMahon, Labor Notes. , , , , , ,
What should union workers do when their nonunion co-workers come under attack? When our health care system in Rochester, New York, announced deep cuts to employee health benefits last November, “we started hearing from people right away,” said critical care nurse Carmen Camelio, president of the Rochester Union of Nurses & Allied Professionals. “And not just members. “We knew we had to do something, and we had to bring people in fast,” he said. In the span of days, union and nonunion workers came together to build a campaign that crossed job titles and worksites, forced the boss to backpedal, and inspired a wave of new organizing.

The Community Organizer’s Community Development Credit Union

July 27, 2026 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. , , ,
Although you can find $8 matcha lattes and $25 cocktails there today, Manhattan’s Lower East Side remains a neighborhood covered in both public housing and limited-equity housing cooperatives. Those buildings are home to thousands of low-income residents — largely Hispanic or Asian, often immigrants — who have been quietly investing in their own vision of the neighborhood for decades. On a warm, muggy Saturday earlier this month, outside the headquarters of the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union on East 3rd Street, those residents gathered for a block party.

As Data Centers Sidestep Tribal Consultations, Nations Fight Back

July 24, 2026 Petala Ironcloud, Truthout. , , , ,
When Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a one-year pause on data center construction on July 14, making New York the first state to pump the brakes on the AI infrastructure boom, tribal nations had already enacted their own moratoriums for months without waiting for a governor’s signature. The Seminole Nation passed its own moratorium in Oklahoma in March. The Tonawanda Seneca Nation sued over a facility in Genesee County, New York, that abuts reservation territory in 2025. In Oklahoma, Cherokee citizen and Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt — who has spent years in federal court fighting tribal sovereignty — has shown no sign of following Hochul’s lead, leaving the Seminole Nation’s moratorium an island of tribal governance in a state whose governor treats Indigenous authority as a threat.

Rochester Nurses Stood With Their Nonunion Co-Workers

July 24, 2026 Will McMahon, Labor Notes. , , , ,
What should union workers do when their nonunion co-workers come under attack? When our health care system in Rochester, New York, announced deep cuts to employee health benefits last November, “we started hearing from people right away,” said critical care nurse Carmen Camelio, president of the Rochester Union of Nurses & Allied Professionals. “And not just members. “We knew we had to do something, and we had to bring people in fast,” he said. In the span of days, union and nonunion workers came together to build a campaign that crossed job titles and worksites, forced the boss to backpedal, and inspired a wave of new organizing.

New York Is Blocking New Data Center Construction

July 19, 2026 Eliana Perozo, Next City. , , , ,
With data centers popping up faster than most people can count, it’s hard to keep track of them. But a recent report from the Pew Research Center shows more than a third of Americans (38%) live within five miles of at least one operational data center. Historically, data centers have been built in more urban areas, but with the popularization of AI, sources show developers are shifting toward building in more rural communities. According to the Pew Research Center, newer data centers are expected to be predominantly built in rural areas. Places that face water droughts and low water supplies could face the most exponential impact as community members suffer from the high demands of water.

‘We Keep Us Safe’: The Fight For Human Rights In Binghamton

July 17, 2026 Rob Warzyniak, People's World. , , ,
Two years ago, when Jasmine Stradford and her partner, along with their three kids, fell behind on their rent, the landlord evicted them. The family was now at the mercy of New York’s emergency shelter system and what little it had to offer. The emergency shelter system was designed to provide not only shelter, but also food, help finding permanent housing, and child care so parents can find work, go to school, or look for housing. They received almost none of that. The Stradford family was one of many in the growing trend involving homeless people in New York who live outside the city, pushing people in need of shelter into hotels. 

Why Some Unions Are Joining The Call To ‘Freeze The Rent’

June 28, 2026 Rebecca Burns, In These Times. , , ,
"I urge you guys to freeze the rent, because we want our students to succeed.” That was the appeal Alyssa Wright made to the nine members of New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) earlier this month, a little more than halfway through a packed, four-hour hearing in the Bronx on whether to freeze rents in the city’s some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments.  Wright serves as a campus supervisor for a pilot program connecting City University of New York (CUNY) students with housing, healthcare and food resources. It’s a challenging role: Just that week, Wright said in her testimony, she had counseled five students facing eviction.

Coordinated Protests Hit Attack On Transgender Youth Health Care

June 26, 2026 Struggle - La Lucha. , , ,
New York – During evening rush hour, the Gender Liberation Movement and ACT UP NY held protests outside three New York City health care monopolies that cut off gender-affirming care to transgender youth earlier this year: Mount Sinai, NYU Langone and NewYork-Presbyterian.  The sudden end of this life-saving care came in response to executive orders and threats by the Trump administration. None of these carried the weight of law or official regulations.  New York State law provides legal protections against persecution for youth, families and health care providers. That didn’t matter to the hospital profiteers.

The Data Center Backlash That’s Uniting America

June 17, 2026 Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. , , ,
The New York State Assembly made history this month by passing what could become the country’s first statewide moratorium on large new data centers. To activists all over the U.S. who are fighting these facilities and their massive social and environmental impact, the development seems like a turning point.  “In almost all 50 states, there’s immense grassroots pressure to institute moratoriums on data centers and halt the spread of this industry,” said Seth Gladstone of Food and Water Watch, which supported the New York bill. “There’s a feeling the boom in data center construction has come about so quickly, the only adequate response is to press the pause button.”

Western New York Resists Mega-Data Center Plan

June 16, 2026 Allie Tutich, The Indypendent. , , ,
As state legislators in Albany are pushing to pass a moratorium on new data centers, a coalition of Western New York residents, the federally recognized Tonawanda Seneca Nation, and other organizations are fighting against a proposal for the largest data center in the state. Stream U.S. Data Center is seeking to construct a 2.2 million-square-foot data-center complex near Alabama, a town of about 1,800 people halfway between Rochester and Buffalo. It would be on land directly adjacent to the Tonawanda Seneca reservation territory and several publicly owned land and wildlife refuges.

A Glimpse Into New York’s Cooperative Ecosystem

June 11, 2026 Ebony Gustave, Grassroots Economic Organizing. , , ,
The Cooperative Leaders & Scholars Fellowship (CLS) was started by the Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF) in the 1990s. While the name and format has changed over the years, the intention has remained the same - to provide professional development and networking to emerging cooperative leaders and scholars. This year I was accepted to join a group of 22 people across the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Canada to learn and build together over the course of 8 months. The cross-sectoral representation of student housing, rural electric, art, and more was just a glimpse into how expansive the cooperative ecosystem is.

Promoting Well-Being With Healthy Community Stores

April 21, 2026 Susan Kelley, Portside. , , ,
Jasmine Robbs recently drove across Buffalo during her lunch break just to shop at her favorite store – Buffalo’s Golden Corner on the East Side – because it sells fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthy options. At the store’s entrance, two coolers stock spinach, lemons, avocado, carrots, peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, yogurt, eggs, dairy products, almond milk and stacks of to-go boxes packed with brilliant raspberries, grapes, pineapple and strawberries. “Every time I spend my food stamps, I am able to cash out on fresh fruits and vegetables, which is imperative,” said Robbs, who says she doesn’t shop anywhere else. “That is my go-to.”

The Meaning Of Maduro In Metropolitan Detention

February 27, 2026 Quincy Saul, Counter Punch. , , ,
I traveled all day to get there, to the prison where the leader of the Bolivarian process is held hostage. It was early January, only a week after Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were kidnapped from Caracas, Venezuela and flown to the prison where they are still held in the Empire State. It has taken me more than a month to write and rewrite this, struggling to distill meaning and method from this madness and mayhem which in today’s world runs the risk of appearing almost mundane – nothing to see here folks! Just another entry in the archive of outrages.

Insurer Agrees To Pay Millions For Failing To Fix Errors

February 20, 2026 Max Blau, Scheer Post. , , , ,
One of New York’s largest health insurers is set to pay a multimillion-dollar fine for failing to fix a series of errors that made it harder for its customers to get mental health care. EmblemHealth this week agreed to a $2.5 million settlement with the New York attorney general’s office because of the large number of inaccuracies in its listings of in-network mental health providers, a problem that has persisted for years. The fine is the biggest secured by the state attorney general’s office in its yearslong quest to clamp down on the chronic problem of provider directory errors, also known as ghost networks.
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