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CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Protest signs against Amazon at a NYC Council hearing in 2019

Opinion: Gov. Hochul, Hold Amazon Accountable this Prime Day

By Maritza Silva-Farrell | July 13, 2022

“As Amazon gets richer, workers are waiting for protections they needed yesterday, and the state has an important role to play. Gov. Hochul can demonstrate her leadership and prove that she will fight for working people. The first step is signing the Warehouse Worker Protection Act.”

Cuomo

Workers Await Gov’s Action to Make Wage-Theft Deadbeats Pay

By Neil deMause | November 13, 2019

The legislature passed a law allowing workers to place a lien on owners’ personal property to prevent them from absconding with cash and starting fresh without making court-mandated payments to workers. It awaits Gov. Cuomo’s signature.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
HPD buildings

Opinion: To Truly Address Affordability, Subsidized Housing Must Pay Decent Wages

By Yenny Hernandez | October 30, 2019

‘I benefited from living in affordable housing, but affordable housing alone was not enough to change my life, I also needed a good job.’

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
HNY site on 127th

Opinion: Prevailing Wage Bill for Building Workers Would Harm Affordable Housing Efforts

By Ismene Speliotis | October 29, 2019

‘The City Council’s work on Intro 1321, while well intentioned, may very well cripple efforts to create deeply affordable housing in New York City.’

age discrimination

Debate Over How to Root Out Age Discrimination in NYC Workplaces

By Roshan Abraham | October 10, 2019

A package of Council bills would mandate more workplace testing, but an administration official says that’s not the best way to detect a subtle form of bias that often intersects with other types of discrimination.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
De Blasio Groundbreaking

Opinion: HireNYC Fails to Create Careers for Construction Workers

By Mike Prohaska | July 24, 2019

‘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
Mike Prohaska

Data Shows Lackluster Results for City Hiring Program

By Karina Hernandez | July 9, 2019

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
Kingsbridge Heights Apartments

Opinion: Affordable-Housing Workers Deserve Fairness, Too

By Kyle Bragg | June 20, 2019

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

By Art Langer | May 21, 2019

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

By Tara Klein | May 17, 2019

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.

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