Small Businesses Fight Park Plans
Leave your thoughtsNearly two weeks after Major League Soccer touted the support of more than 1,000 small businesses for their proposed 25,000-seat…
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Jamaica Car Wash Workers Join Union
Leave your thoughtsNine months after launching the Citywide Workers Aligned for a Sustainable and Healthy New York campaign to fight mistreatment in…
Car Washers First In City To Unionize
Leave your thoughtsLast month, workers at the Hi-Tek Car Wash & Lube, located at 83-01 24th Ave. in Elmhurst, gathered together to…
Workers Rally For Paid Sick Days
Leave your thoughtsOn July 30, a crowd gathered in front of Taqueria El Idolo at 91-07 Corona Ave., Elmhurst, to rally in…
Boro Gets New Immigration Office
Leave your thoughtsFor years, residents of the borough trying to become American citizens have had to venture to Manhattan and wait with…
Support Growing To End Deport Rule
Leave your thoughtsThe New York City Council is on the verge of passing a bill that would limit the Dept. of Corrections…
Rep. Warns GOP Health Plan Will Hurt
Leave your thoughtsU.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-Jackson Heights) warned his constituents last week that adoption of the GOP budget in Congress will…
Wage Theft Law Awaits Gov.
Leave your thoughtsThe Wage Theft Prevention Act, aimed at preventing employers from withholding wages, an often-overlooked problem among immigrant workers, passed the…
Boro Teens Skip Out To Protest Fares
Leave your thoughtsIt looked more like a typical dismissal than an act of civil disobedience, but the students who walked out of…
Groups Spilt $400K in Immigrant Aid
Leave your thoughtsThis week, the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development announced two Queens organizations, Make the Road New Yorkand…