OPINION: Paid Personal Time should be a right and not a privilege
/“It’s time we demand more for the nearly one million New Yorkers working longer and harder without a single paid day off to rest or tend to important life events.”
Read More“It’s time we demand more for the nearly one million New Yorkers working longer and harder without a single paid day off to rest or tend to important life events.”
Read MoreEmployees of Eulen America are speaking out about Eulen’s “long history of mistreatment of their almost exclusively immigrant workforce.”
Read More“I am horrified that our federal government and our local elected leaders are allowing people to be jailed for no reason.”
Read More“It’s been 19 days now since Layleen Polanco was found dead in her cell at Rikers and we’ve had no action from the city.”
Read MoreActivists will “demand accountability and lay out policy changes that must happen to end the convergence of carceral systems that led to Polanco’s death.”
Read More“The beauty of politics is that sometimes the people have a choice to elect someone who can change everything.”
Read More“Others are treating this race as a game of chess and our community is being used as the pawns.”
Read More‘Changing this system is going to take a skilled administrator with deep ties to communities.’
Read More“Her candidacy reflects our shared values and our shared vision of a New York that delivers real justice to our community, particularly for Black and Brown people.”
Read More“With average costs surpassing college tuition and median rent, quality child care is unaffordable for most families.”
Read More“They thought it was ridiculous. Some of them were a little petrified, ‘What were we going to do?’”
Read More“It is, simply put, not a job for beginners.”
Read MoreActivists have hailed the bill, sponsored by Queens Assemblymember Nily Rozic and State Sen. Jessica Ramos, as a breakthrough piece of legislation.
Read More“The strong economic framework that we enjoy today is a direct result of the City’s welcoming policy toward immigrants that we have maintained for over 100 years.”
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