By Steve Wishnia

Workers at the New York Immigration Coalition, cohost of the union-led International Workers’ Day May Day March, have asked the organization to recognize their newly formed union, NYIC United.

By Joe Maniscalco

Eighty-one days have elapsed since New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin stood on the sidewalk with home care workers outside City Hall and promised to bring Intro. 303—the No More 24 bill—to the floor for a vote.

By Steve Wishnia

Four years after Nicole Munoz was fired from her job as a bathroom cleaner in a Midtown office building, and nine months after the state Division of Human Rights held there was “probable cause” to believe it was retaliation for her filing a sexual-harassment complaint, she is seeking compensation from her former employer, the SL Green real-estate company.

By Joe Maniscalco

A coalition of both active workers and retirees from New York City’s largest public service union is defying union leadership and calling on City Council Speaker Julie Menin to back a bill banning round-the-clock shifts in the home care industry.

By Steve Wishnia

Saying that a 1,000-unit Harlem development approved by the City Council last year does not include housing neighborhood residents can actually afford, about 25 people rallied on the steps of City Hall May 27 to demand that the city require it to include 400 apartments for working-class people.

By Joe Maniscalco

The head of the largest public sector union in the City of New York and his lieutenants said a lot jaw-dropping things this past Wednesday in opposition to No More 24 advocates fighting to end exploitation and institutionalized wage theft in the home care industry.

Editor’s Note: The following is an open letter to retirees from New York Public Library Retirees Association President Ray Markey and VP Jane Kunstler

Dear Retiree,

The New York Public Library and the District Council 37/The New York Public Health & Security Plan Trust have been paying all Medicare Part B eligible retirees 80% of our contribution, not 100%. The Trust letter of 2025 writes, “we have decided again this year to reimburse the 2024 Medicare Part B premium at 80% of the base cost.” This has been happening since 2017.

By Steve Wishnia

Few people say they support the current system of paying home health aides who do 24-hour shifts for only 13 hours—even as they oppose efforts to end it. “We all recognize the onerous conditions some home care workers face. Every worker deserves a decent wage for every minute they work,” the Legal Aid Society wrote in March, joined by the DC37 union and a group of disabled people’s organizations, in a letter urging the City Council to reject legislation to prohibit 24-hour shifts.

By Joe Maniscalco

Ugly tensions erupted outside City Hall on Wednesday as workers and advocates fighting to end round-the-clock shifts in New York City’s home care industry marched down Broadway and crashed District Council 37’s rally against the proposed ban.

By Joe Maniscalco

Opponents of legislation ending round-the-clock shifts in New York City’s home care industry are expected to argue at a rally in City Hall Park on Wednesday that while “abusive”—little can be done to change a system widely acknowledged as nothing less than modern day slavery. 

By Steve Wishnia

A quartet of people in wheelchairs, joined by a handful of supporters, protested outside City Councilmember Christopher Marte’s Chinatown district office May 12, saying that Intro 303, his bill to prohibit 24-hour shifts for home-care aides, would lead to patients getting their care cut off.

By Joe Maniscalco

The hard-fought struggle to finally end institutionalized wage theft and round-the-clock shifts in New York City’s home care industry entered a new phase this week with a possible vote a bill nobody seems to want. 

By Steve Wishnia

City Council Speaker Julie Menin has introduced a version of the No More 24 Act that would extend how long home health-care workers may still do 24-hour shifts by six months.

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City public Housing advocate Layla Law-Gisiko may have lost her bid to win last month’s special election to fill Erik Bottcher’s vacated District 3 Council seat, but the vote once again proved that Chelsea residents reject plans to demolition their community.

By Steve Wishnia

Washington Square Park was a sea of orange May 1, as the Laborers International Union of North America brought hundreds of members from as far as New England and Delaware for the May Day march.

By Joe Maniscalco

Repealing the New York State Stock Transfer Tax rebate could, according to supporters, generate as much as $40 billion to $75 billion annually for the most urgent needs facing working class New Yorkers today.

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood inside Washington Square Park on May Day waxing poetically about socialist icon Eugene V. Debs and the battle for the eight hour workday.

But just 20-some-odd blocks away outside the gates of City Hall home care workers and their allies fighting to end the 24-hour workday and other working class struggles against privatization and displacement called out Hizzoner’s hypocrisy in turning a blind eye to all those ongoing battles.

By Joe Maniscalco

Has the election Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as a recent UFT Delegate Assembly resolution declared, “definitively ended the immediate danger” of New York City municipal retirees being stripped of their Traditional Medicare and pushed into a predatory Medicare Advantage health insurance plan?

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City home care workers fighting to ban the 24-hour workday capped off Week 1 of their hunger strike outside the gates of City Hall on Thursday confident City Council Speaker Julie Menin will finally green light a vote on legislation they want by mid-May.

By Joe Maniscalco

New York City law enforcement agents on Tuesday reportedly tried unsuccessfully to strip elderly home care workers of the makeshift tent they’re using to help withstand unseasonably frigid temperatures and rain during their ongoing hunger strike outside the gates of City Hall.