CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: HireNYC Fails to Create Careers for Construction Workers
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‘With no real pathway from job training to work, it’s no surprise that so few new construction and development hires were made through HireNYC.’
Bill de Blasio
Data Shows Lackluster Results for City Hiring Program
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HireNYC gets a lot of hype from the de Blasio administration, but four years in, 80 percent of applications through the initiative are listed as ‘pending.’
Agenda 2019
Opinion: Affordable-Housing Workers Deserve Fairness, Too
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The mayor’s housing plan will generate more than 1,800 new jobs for porters, maintenance workers, superintendents and other building service workers—which could provide life-changing opportunities, if they come with good wages and benefits.
amazon
Opinion: Amazon Deal’s Collapse Shows the Work Big Tech Must Do in NYC
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Big Tech can succeed here, but only if its presence benefits all New Yorkers.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Stop Pitting Home-Care Workers Against Employers
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State regulations force workers to accept dire wages, and it’s time for the state to take responsibility for covering these costs and rectifying a system it has neglected for decades.
careers
Are City Schools and Hospitals Doing Enough to Diversify Medicine?
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Reducing racial disparities within the practice of medicine will take work by elementary-school teachers, high-school counselors, college programs, med schools and mentor physicians. But the work starts with letting Black and Latino kids know they have the right to dream.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: New York’s Renewable Projects Need Prevailing Wages
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‘As we direct our state’s resources into renewable infrastructure, it’s critical that we invest in the workers who build it. ‘
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Spirit of Cesar Chavez Lives On in Fight for Tipped Workers’ Wages
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”Chavez once said, ‘The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It’s always about people.’ It’s time for Gov. Cuomo to pass One Fair Wage and treat tipped workers with respect and dignity.”
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers
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‘For the farmworkers of New York State, the Farmworkers Fair Labors Practices Act (FFLPA) is a promising remediation to exploitative labor practices, poor living conditions and a pernicious exemption from legal protections or mechanisms to fight against it.’
ACD
Opinion: Loophole Means Criminal Charges Set to be Dismissed Still Upend Lives in NYS
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An ‘ACD’ is a common mechanism in our criminal legal system to dismiss and seal all charges. But while pending, the charges are accessible to the public – including employers.