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The NYPD and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) together doled out 5,197 tickets to vendors last year, with the police department issuing significantly more tickets, despite a…

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

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Jun 2022

Government Housing and Homelessness Opinion Politics

Opinion: NYC’s Human Service Workers Deserve Just Pay in This Year’s Budget

“The very forces contributing to a worsening housing emergency are also impacting the workers tasked with solving that crisis. Those who work to find permanent and safe apartments for the…

ByMyung Lee 0Comments

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Jan 2022

Economy Government Politics

NY’s ‘Excluded Workers’ Push State for Protections Beyond Pandemic Aid

A coalition of groups representing undocumented immigrant workers, cash earners and others excluded from traditional worker benefits are campaigning for a stronger social safety net for these employees, who they…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 0Comments

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Sep 2020

Uncategorized

Opinion: NYC’s Surcharge Law Must Protect Restaurant Workers

We need the Council to courageously provide relief for all stakeholders—workers, employers and consumers—together.

ByRussell Jackson 0Comments

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Jul 2020

Opinion

Opinion: Wage Theft is a Criminal Act. Treat it as Such

Until prosecutors stop viewing the enforcement of these crimes as optional and start investigating them like other crimes, unscrupulous companies will continue to incorporate fraud into their business model.

ByCatalina Cruz 0Comments

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Mar 2020

Uncategorized

Restaurant Workers Amid COVID-19: Essential, At Risk, Unprotected

The concern about sick leave is only one worry facing restaurant workers. A deeper one is that their jobs could vanish even if they stay healthy.

ByDaniel Parra 2Comments

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Mar 2020

Economy

Delivery Workers Face Challenges on Front Line of Disease Response

Jack Lee, like 400,000 of his fellow, mostly immigrant food delivery workers, has found himself on the front line of this fast developing crisis.

ByAmir Khafagy 0Comments

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May 2019

Opinion

Opinion: Stop Pitting Home-Care Workers Against Employers

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.

ByTara Klein 0Comments

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Mar 2019

Opinion

Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers

‘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…

ByOlivia Heffernan 2Comments

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Nov 2018

Opinion

CityViews: NYC’s Transit Workers Deserve Help, Not the Hatchet

‘Instead of trying to eliminate positions, advocates, officials—and pundits writing in the safety of their offices—should join TWU Local 100’s efforts to better protect transit workers.’

ByTony Utano 2Comments

Data Drop: NYPD Issued Majority of Street Vending Tickets in 2022

NY’s ‘Excluded Workers’ Push State for Protections Beyond Pandemic Aid

Opinion: NYC’s Surcharge Law Must Protect Restaurant Workers

Opinion: Wage Theft is a Criminal Act. Treat it as Such

Restaurant Workers Amid COVID-19: Essential, At Risk, Unprotected

Delivery Workers Face Challenges on Front Line of Disease Response

Opinion: Stop Pitting Home-Care Workers Against Employers

Opinion: Time for Albany to Harvest Long Overdue Crop of Justice for NYS Farmworkers

CityViews: NYC’s Transit Workers Deserve Help, Not the Hatchet

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