Justice for Excluded Workers
Leave your thoughtsThe approval this week of the nation’s first-ever Excluded Workers Fund is a bold statement that New York recognizes the…
Category: Workplace Justice
$2.1 Billion for Undocumented Workers Signals New York’s Progressive Shift
Leave your thoughtsWhen the coronavirus arrived in New York City a year ago, it hit enclaves of undocumented immigrants with a fury,…
My hunger strike worked: An excluded worker expresses relief
Leave your thoughtsA year ago, I lost my job, my apartment and my brother to COVID-19. Since the pandemic hit, I have…
$2.1 billion for undocumented immigrants in New York sees them finally get the COVID relief they deserve
Leave your thoughtsFollowing a year-long fight that culminated in a 23-day hunger strike led by Make The Road NY, state leaders agreed…
Trabajadores inmigrantes y aliados celebran ‘victoria’ por Fondo de Ayuda
Leave your thoughtsTrabajadores inmigrantes, activistas y legisladores locales que los apoyan celebraron el miércoles la inclusión en el presupuesto estatal del Fondo…
Fondos del presupuesto fiscal de NY beneficiarán a los inmigrantes indocumentados: cómo funciona
Leave your thoughtsEl presupuesto para el año fiscal 2022 aprobado por Nueva York dará parte de los fondos para los trabajadores que han…
Cuomo Pushes Burdensome Requirements for Undocumented Workers Fund
Leave your thoughtsAn undocumented workers fund. A measure currently planned for New York’s next budget would provide more than $2 billion in…
Hunger strike continues for undocumented workers denied COVID relief as budget deadline looms
Leave your thoughtsWith the state budget deadline fast approaching in Albany, activists are continuing a weekslong hunger strike to call attention to the…
Striking, starving workers have feet washed by pols outside Cuomo’s Manhattan office on Holy Thursday
Leave your thoughtsFollowing a Holy Thursday custom, elected officials in Manhattan washed the feet of several workers engaged in a hunger strike…
Hunger strike draws attention to workers excluded from COVID-19 relief
Leave your thoughtsBy the morning of March 19, when Tony Romero arrived at the Church of the Ascension on Fifth Avenue in…