Sweatshop labor is alive and well in Brooklyn.
Just ask the women stripping tobacco 13 hours a day, six days a week, for ~$8 an hour.
OSHA, NYSDOL, already aware of the situation —>
It’s official: App-based food delivery workers must be paid $17.96hr before tips beginning July 12, a # that takes into account their operating costs.
New York is the first US city to implement a min pay rate for the industry. Story TK, background here:
Nick, 83, knew the subways were shutting down tonight, but planned to find a “good station” off the Q. He didn’t realize those would be locked too. He says the streets are dangerous, and the shelters are “full of the virus.”
INBOX:
@Teamsters
win "historic" UPS contract, with wage increases for full time workers, in addition to a doubling wages for part-timers, end to the controversial two-tier contract known as 22.4, and the company agreed to install A/C's in all trucks after Jan. 2024, and more.
Today I checked in with delivery workers who had no other option but work during last night’s deluge.
None of them earned more than $277 all day: “This was the most horrible day ever on the job.”
Workers will get a $1.85 wage increase over 3yrs and will not pay any more out of pocket for family healthcare plan. They’re keeping their full benefits.
@TeamstersJC16
Local 202 president Danny Kane tells
@THECITYNY
it’s their biggest contract in 30 years. Story with details TK
Much of the public's attention on the
@NYTimesGuild
strike has focused on its journalists.
I spent today talking to low-wage concierges, security guards & IT workers on strike - fellow Guild members - who stand to gain the most from the union's demands.
Puerto Rico's beleaguered electric power authority has hired a new consultant ... Chris Christie.
The former NJ Gov.'s consulting firm is charging $28k a month for its services and is contracted through the end of this year.
.
@POTUS
: "How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries and everybody knew it? What would it be like if we engaged in activities that he engaged in? It diminishes the standing of a country."
Firework in Puerto Rico tonight as people in Santurce celebrated New Year's Eve.
People decided to cancel January after a month of anxiety due to earthquakes that have been felt almost daily, & continue.
People want to start over.
So, HNY!
#2020TAKE2
📷: Eloy Perez
Beginning with the US invasion of Puerto Rico in 1898, the fed govm't decided the island was "overcrowded" and implemented a series of programs to control its population. One was incentivizing the mass migration to U.S. cities. The other was mass sterilization.
“Abandoned” was the word a 76 year old man used when we met him on a dilapidated bridge in Utuado, Puerto Rico.
We wanted to get out of San Juan to see the needs of people in the mountains. Here’s the report we filed for the
@CBSEveningNews
with
@NorahODonnell
Huge day for
@LosDeliveristas
who defied the odds, took on Big Tech and won in what
@SenSchumer
called “one of the most exciting and extraordinary examples of new labor organizing in the country.”
@THECITYNY
first brought you their story in Dec 2020:
“We're told Cardi will cover both funeral and burial expenses and has teamed up with The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City to make sure everyone is covered, and the wishes of their families are met.”
Inbox: Workers at the in
@AlamoDrafthouse
in Brooklyn filed a petition to unionize today with
@UAW
Local 2179. The 190-member bargaining unit includes FT and PT box office workers, cooks, custodians, wait staff, line cooks and bartenders.
Björk has a timeshare in Puerto Rico and was rumored to be in town that weekend. Lo and behold I go out dinner and she’s dining in the table next to mine. I walk up to her (stupid) and timidly ask her (God help me) “excuse me, are you Björk?” and she responds “not tonight, no”
So far people have shown up to Viejo San Juan by car, foot, horseback, and motorcycle brigade demanding Gov. Rosselló to resign.
Today, they showed up in jet skis.
NEW by
@J__Velasquez
& me: They came from Maya villages & settled in Bensonhurst in search of a better future. Now, these delivery workers want fair wages & safety on the job. Meet los Deliveristas Unidos:
“This is going to be a massive movement.”
Bernardo, Francisco’s uncle, is also a delivery worker. He delivers for
@Postmates
. He encouraged me to take a photo of his most recent deliveries and gave me permission to post. “Look at the tips,” he said pointing at the $0.01 and $0.50 tips. “This is what we’re dying for.”
Students at
@uprm
, my alma mater, have taken over campus in a 36-hour strike. They are protesting against increased tuition costs and other austerity measures, including threats to shut down some campuses in the UPR system. Here’s the crowd @ 9pm local time, about two hours ago.
los gringos que vienen a puerto rico, hacen su vida aquí, no aprenden español y después andan quejándose de que nosotros “refuse to learn English” .........., girl
The 340,000 UPS Teamsters had been preparing for a strike that, had it begun on Aug. 1, would have caused a crisis in the supply chain as e-commerce exploded post-pandemic. Today's tentative agreement is pending ratification by union members.
Los boricuas no estamos listos para tener esta conversación. Mucho menos los que somos “de la isla.” Ese complejo que tenemos de quién es más o menos es una herida abierta, tan producto del colonialismo como el desplazamiento masivo, multigeneracional a la raíz de esta discusión.
It’s official: ~300 resident doctors
@cirseiu
at Jamaica and Flushing hospitals will strike for five days starting tomorrow. It is the first time in a generation that doctors in NYC go on strike.
Background here:
@haideechu
@THECITYNY
This misses the point. Apart from the appalling homophobic, sexist remarks, the logs indicate the Gov., his advisors, and members of his cabinet coordinated opposition campaigns and obstruction of justice while on payroll and shared confidential info with private sector lobbyists
Remember the dead bodies piled up in morgues in Puerto Rico for months after Hurricane Maria? Here is Christian Sobrino, CFO of the PR Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority, joking in a leaked chat w the governor abt how they should feed them to [figurative] “vultures.”
Happening now.
Reminder: these essential workers —
@TeamstersJC16
members who worked throughout the pandemic supplying food for the entire NYC metro area — are on strike demanding a $1/hr raise.
Management offered 32 cents an hour.
BREAKING: 21 train cars of merchandise turned back at Hunts Point Market strike line.
“The locomotive engineer said, ‘we’re
@Teamsters
too,’ turned the freight car around, and headed back to Ohio.”
UNION SOLIDARITY ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏻
#1u
#HuntsPointStrike
Really raw morning at the Islamic Cultural Center on E 166th today as thousands (per
@NYPDnews
) gathered to mourn 15 victims of the Twin Parks fire today.
The Coalition for the Homeless
@NYHomeless
responds to killing of Jordan Neely, says release w/o charges of the man who is seen on video choking him “evidences the City’s callous indifference to the lives of those who are homeless and psychiatrically unwell.”
After watching this vid exactly 7 times: My migraine? Gone. My skin? Clear. My GPA? Flawless. My credit score? Up. My sight? Enhanced. My crops? Watered. My soul? Fed.
The New York accent is both music and ideology, instantly recognizable as sound and almost physically palpable, too.
New Yorkers from every borough entered the
#BestNYAccent
challenge on Instagram to find the ultimate New Yawk voice.
When I first spoke with Ashley, Nunu & Jeff last year, they said the biggest game-changer of life in a hotel was having a place to shower. Now, one year later, they’re taking care of their health, completing jobs training — and considering going to college
This is a laughable mischaracterization of what actually happened. All the footage shows people peacefully removing the aid from the warehouse to be distributed to disaster areas. It wasn’t a “mob” and it certainly wasn’t chaotic
BREAKING: Danny Kane Jr.
@TeamstersJC16
Local 202 president says members ratified a new three-year contract with over 97% members in agreement. Strike’s over:
Gov. Rosselló hasn’t addressed local reporters or hosted a press conference since last Tuesday. His message last night was broadcast live on his Facebook page. But here he is about to go live on Fox News...
✨News✨: today was my first day covering THE BRONX for
@THECITYNY
!
I'm sad to leave Brooklyn after two rewarding years, but I'm proud of the work I've produced in service with and for the community. I'm eager to continue that work in The Bronx. Here are some of my favorites:
A sad milestone this weekend: 100 homeless people in NYC have died of COVID-19 as of July 5, per the city’s Dept of Homeless Services; they’re among 1,293 homeless people who‘ve contracted the illness in the city.
“I don’t understand how a mayor whose prime campaign narrative was public safety… is public safety only when it comes to street crime? It doesn’t get more public safety than this”
@eddiebautista08
@sssmaldo
@katie_honan
@THECITYNY
BREAKING: the Council PASSES "historic" food delivery worker protections, setting the stage for NYC to become the first major US city to set minimum pay standards for app-based couriers. The bill now goes to
@NYCMayor
's desk to sign. More TK:
@J__Velasquez
After the Gambian Youth Organization — HQ’d just steps from the bldg that burned in The Bronx yesterday — blew past their initial $20k goal last night, they upped their goal to $200k.
As of 8:45am, they’ve raised nearly $295k in direct relief for families
"We want to thank Jeff Bezos for going up to space, because while he was up there, we were organizing a union."
Amazon Warehouse Workers Win Historic Union Vote on Staten Island via
@THECITYNY
Workers I’ve spoken with have told me they’ve noticed a heightened police presence today, and it shows. Def more cops here than any other day I’ve been here, incl. mounted police units on stand by
Here in East Harlem for a Good Friday vigil for
@doordash
delivery worker Francisco Villalva Vitino, who was shot and killed Monday while a thief reportedly tried to steal his e-bike.
#LosDeliveristasUnidos
leader Sergio
@AjcheGustavo
kicks off the remarks
Este comportamiento por parte de los realtors que describe Ismael está prohibido por el Fair Housing Act del 1968, una ley fed. de derechos civiles. Si sospechas que un realtor te ha discriminado, contacta a la ofi. regional de HUD (p. 7) y denúncialo. ->
For weeks, Starbucks said there was no mold in the ice machines at their NYC flagship reserve roastery.
State food safety inspectors found mold in the ice machine — buoying workers’ health and safety claims on their third week on strike.
@SBWorkersUnited
So very honored that
@J__Velasquez
and I have won a national
#Murrow
award for our reporting on Los Deliveristas Unidos
@THECITYNY
. Don’t forget about the courageous delivery workers who keep our city fed and our small businesses afloat.
Everyone I interviewed here is delighted to have lived in a hotel for the past year -- but what they really want is housing. All of them have housing vouchers, and yet they can't find an apartment they can afford -- or a landlord who'll accept the vouchers.
NYC officials released the names of 14 of 17 victims of the Twin Parks fire:
Sera Janneh, 27
Seydou Toure, 12
Haouwa Mahamadou, 5
Haji Dukary, 49
Haja Dukureh, 37
Mustapha Dukureh, 12
Mariam Dukureh, 11
Fatoumata Dukureh, 5
Fatoumata Drammeh, 50
Resident doctors are officially on strike at Elmhurst Hosp, the first doctors’ strike in NYC in a generation.
Key to the union’s
@cirseiu
demands is pay parity w other, non-union docs at Mount Sinai, which runs their residency program. Background here:
The military is monitoring protests in NYC and 6 other states, per docs obtained by
@thenation
. A Natl Guard member in MN told
@kenklippenstein
: “We’re a combat unit not trained for riot control or safely handling civilians in this context.“
Remarkable scene at Elmhurst Hosp today: as 150 docs in Queens walked out of the job in a NYC hospital for the 1st time in a generation, 500 doctors at another hosp in Manhattan also announced their intent to strike if a contract deal is not reached. More:
A young man paid by his landlord to leave & never return. Sick people ejected by roommates.
A DHS memo obtained by
@THECITYNY
sounded the alarm:
expelled from their dwellings, coronavirus patients are becoming homeless.
Meet NYC’s COVID-19 refugees: