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Yves here. Take your hats off to my former Communist home. New York’s citizens beat Amazon’s effort to locate in Queens, which would quickly have rendered a remaining relatively low-rent, close proximity borough much less affordable. And now they are opposing a corporate Trojan horse masquerading as a pro-union measure. Guess its backers thought no one would read the small print. Or that deliveristas might be a force to be reckoned with, and win the support of the building workers union.. Oops. A delivery worker takes a break in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, May 24, 2021. Ben Fractenberg/THE CIT...

Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY The fate of a state proposal that would allow some app-based gig workers to join a union is in doubt after key players, including a collective of food delivery workers, came out against the measure Tuesday. Los Deliveristas Unidos — a group of mainly immigrant food delivery couriers — and service workers union 32BJ SEIU announced they oppose the effort, which would grant workers some bargaining power but shop short of reclassifying them as employees entitled to full labor rights. The delivery group declared itself “opposed to any legislative proposal that is pr...

In New York, a Wait-and-See Attitude Even With a Reopening Businesses will begin to reopen in weeks, but in residential buildings, no one seems quite ready to abandon pandemic protocols. Last year, the staff at 150 West 58th Street routinely sanitized packages outdoors before delivering them to residents. That precaution may — or may not be — a thing of the past very soon.Credit...Robert Wright for The New York Times By Joanne Kaufman May 6, 2021, 8:00 a.m. ET On Monday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that come May 19, restaurants, stores, museums, offices, health clubs and barbershops in...

05/03/21 Jon L. Gelman NJ Governor Phil Murphy on Friday signed the Healthy Terminals Act (S989) which creates new minimum wage and benefits requirements for certain Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Newark Liberty International Train Station workers. The legislation will expand access to livable wages and affordable health care for workers at the airport and train station who often cannot afford employer-provided health care plans. “For a long time, we have heard the concerns and often desperate pleas from airport workers for access to affordable health care and for wages that...

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