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we finally found a trump/AOC voter: the yemeni-american former chair of bronx community board 11

THREAD: The employees of 1199SEIU, the nation's largest health care union, have unionized. Yes, you read that right. And they're facing an ironic hurdle: 1199SEIU leadership. (1/6)

Rank-and-file opposition caucuses in New York City’s powerful teachers union are teaming up to oppose President Michael Mulgrew’s reelection next spring. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/1…

"The state Workers’ Compensation Board has cited the New York City Law Department, which runs the city’s insurance program, for legal infractions over 10,000 times each year since the pandemic." OVER 10,000 TIMES. New from Max Parrott for New York Focus nysfocus.com/2024/12/19/new…

NYPD out here in Queens doing Amazon’s bidding by roughing up and arresting workers who are standing up for themselves. The Teamsters have a right to strike and our police should be protecting them, not Jeff Bezos

Did you know that NYC operates its own workers comp insurance carrier for city workers? In fact, it’s notorious in this capacity. The city mishandles and delays more cases and wage payments for injured its workers than any other employer in the state. nysfocus.com/2024/12/19/new…

I am out here at JFK8 in Staten Island where a large group of Amazon Labor Union IBT workers have walked off the fulfillment center floor on strike.

“The central challenge at Amazon, for Teamsters and independent unions alike, is how to build a durable organization in a workplace with an annual churn of 150 percent. Organizing there can be like building a sand castle” Great reporting and analysis.

In my 3 years covering CM Vickie Paladino, my peers have asked me constantly: “Is she actually crazy?” When I tell her this, she laughs. “I love it when they ask that.” She may be the future of the GOP in NYC. My cover story debut for City & State NY: cityandstateny.com/personality/20…

NLRB's Acting General Counsel just send this memo out to staff saying, "I cannot promise you that everything is going to be OK." "I know that the past few days and nights have been extremely scary and distressing for some of us."

Read more: laborrelationsupdate.com/2025/02/breaki….

DoorDash to pay NY delivery workers $17 million for using their tips to cover wages apnews.com/article/doorda…

*New New York Focus investigation: Striking guards and prisoners rights activists alike have called for the ouster of New York’s prison commissioner. A year and a half of reporting reveals how Daniel Martuscello III, his family, and their patronage network rose to power. 🔗below

“The officers spearheading the bid to oust Gresham this spring say his effort to cling to power is one reason organized labor has faltered: leaders prioritizing their own interests over the needs of dues-paying members.”

In Wolcott, NY, a farm that refused to bargain with its union is now refusing to follow a contract reached in arbitration. It's one of a few contracts NY farmworkers have won since they gained the right to unionize in 2019 -- and a big test for the state labor board.

this man does not understand ranked choice voting

New story on James Dolan's adventures in campaign finance: He and two affiliated PACs have spent over $140K on DA Alvin Bragg's independent challenger, Diana Florence. Yes, there's a facial recognition angle to this grudge. amny.com/law/msgs-james…

After I did a story on understaffing in the Labor Department's unemployment division a year and a half ago, every few months I get an email from a New Yorker who can't get through to get their benefits desperate for advice. I wish I had an answer for them.