New York City

In a Six-Day Strike, Bronx Produce Workers Doubled Their Raise and Inspired New York

Leave a Comment / Strike, unions / By max cyril

Drivers and warehouse workers who feed New York City have won their strike. After six days off the job, the strikers at Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx ratified a contract that doubled management’s wage offer and defeated a health care cost increase. The 1,400 workers at the world’s largest wholesale produce market, members …

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Essential food workers strike over $1 in New York City, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Strike, unions / By max cyril

Remember back in April when everyone suddenly realized that food chain workers are essential workers? A group of workers in the Bronx is trying to make good on that realization as they negotiate their next contract—and it’s led to a strike, as the bosses at the Hunts Point Produce Market refuse the workers’ call for …

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New York City fast food workers to get a major new job protection, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Right to Work & At-Will employment, Worker Protection / By max cyril

The New York City Council voted to dramatically strengthen protections for fast food workers with two bills this week, both supported by Mayor Bill de Blasio. The really big deal bill would ban fast food restaurants from firing workers without just cause—that means workers could only (“only”) be fired for performance issues or other serious problems, not just …

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With City’s Economic Future in Doubt, Can New York Unions Stop the Cuts?

Leave a Comment / AFSCME, economy, unions / By max cyril

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed nearly 25,000 New York City residents. The worst of the public health crisis may have passed, but its dire toll has triggered a second crisis. Shutting down huge swaths of the economy was necessary to save lives, but the deep freeze on economic activity has plunged the city into its …

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New York City could see 400,000 workers return next month in first phase of a long recovery

Leave a Comment / Workers / By max cyril

As many as 400,000 workers could head back to work when New York City begins the first phase of its reopening in June, as the national epicenter of the crisis looks to begin a long recovery from the coronavirus shutdown. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday laid out guidelines for businesses that will be allowed …

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Bloomberg’s Job Killing Budget Cuts

New York’s Lousy Jobs (And How We Can Make Them Better)

Leave a Comment / Jobs, wages / By max cyril

Should we tear down the city’s middle class? Or work to turn lousy jobs into good ones? That’s the policy choice facing New York’s city and state leaders. So far, their decisions aren’t encouraging: for years New York has failed to use its economic development programs to promote the creation of good, family-supporting jobs. Now …

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Wrestling With Racial Bias, New York Firefighters Resist Reform

Leave a Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

New York City’s firefighters have been embroiled in racial and ethnic politics throughout their history, and the Fire Department’s latest civil rights controversy has stoked a political standoff and a hiring freeze. The FDNY is still reeling from a federal court ruling in August that put firefighters at odds with anti-discrimination law. The judge ruled …

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