Listen: Home Care Workers, Tenants, and Retirees Continue to Bring the Heat Despite Mamdani’s Cold Shoulder
FEC public housing tenants fighting the demolition of their communities effectively shut down NYCHA’s latest Board Meeting held late last month.
By Joe Maniscalco
This week’s Labor and Healthcare Confidential show featured advocates from both the Fulton and Elliott-Chelsea Tenants Against Demolition coalition—and the Ain’t I a Woman Campaign fighting to end the 24-hour workday in New York City’s home care industry.
Over the course of the lively hour-long interview with host Marianne Pizzitola we learned once again that the battle to save public housing from privatization and the “No More 24” fight to end round-the-clock shifts for home care workers—as well as the ongoing struggle to protect New York City municipal retiree healthcare from diminishment—are not disparate issues.
Home care workers and their allies determined to push passage of Intro. 303—the No More 24 bill—protested en masse outside City Hall this past weekend.
They actually share a lot of commonality in the way working people who give so much to the City of New York are being negatively impacted and ignored by the current mayoral administration.
With these grassroots coalitions continuing to build and push back, however, it remains to be seen how much longer Mayor Mamdani is going to be able to keep freezing out public housing tenants, home care workers, and municipal retirees.
Marianne Pizzitola [floral top] and fellow members of the New York City Organization of Public Service Retirees [seen here outside City Hall in August] continue to press for passage of Intro. 1008—the latest version of vital legislation needed to protect retirees’ Traditional Medicare benefits from being gutted.
This episode of the Labor and Healthcare Confidential show on WBAI covers all that and more.
Listen to the entire show below: