Editor’s Note: The following is an op-ed from consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader and Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein.

Dear Mayor-elect Mandani,

It should not come as a surprise to alert citizens that your decisive victory in the Mayoral race has prompted your opponents – the privileged super-rich and their indentured servants in City Hall – to label you as an “extremist,” “radical,” or, in Trump’s view, a “communist.” How ludicrous! Your affordability agenda is hardly immoderate. Many Democratic politicians have taken these positions over time.

By Steve Wishnia

State Supreme Court Judge David B. Cohen on Dec. 4 denied the New York City Housing Authority’s request for a preliminary injunction ordering eight Chelsea Addition senior-housing residents to accept relocation so the building can be demolished.

Editor’s Note: Ray Rogers is a pioneering labor strategist & organizer, and founder of CorporateCampaign.org.

By Ray Rogers

Since 2004, as part of the Campaign to Stop Killer Coke, I have attended Coca-Cola’s annual meetings of shareholders to confront The Coca-Cola Company’s chief executives and board members over the company's involvement in horrific human rights abuses and other criminal behavior.

Editor’s Note: This is Part II of Phil’s first-person account of a truly unusual decertification fight that took place at a Brooks Brothers shirt factory located in Garland, North Carolina during the mid-1990s.

WAR STORIES BY Phil Cohen

As we resumed our seats at the bargaining table, Hodges asked if we’d had a chance to review the company’s package.

“As much as possible within a short period of time,” I replied. “Where do you come off trying to eliminate seniority from the job bidding language? That’s at the heart of every union contract, including the other two Brooks Brothers plants.”

Editor’s Note: This story was revised to reflect the correct line-up of speakers scheduled to appear at tonight’s forum. They include CWA political director Hae-Lin Choi, Federal Unionists Network codirector Chris Dols, Dr. Alethia Jones, distinguished lecturer at the CUNY School of Labor Studies, and Nadine Williamson, Senior Executive V.P., 1199SEIU).

By Steve Wishnia

How can the labor movement harness widespread discontent to fight Trumpism and racism effectively? Four speakers will address that question on the evening of Dec. 3, in an event organized by 1199SEIU, the Communications Workers of America, the Federal Unionists Network, and the Left Labor Project.

By Joe Maniscalco

Eighty-nine-year-old academic and author Patricia Hills spent her entire professional career opening up American museums and cultural institutions to the exact kinds of “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology” the Trump administration has now pledged to purge.

WAR STORIES By Phil Cohen

Editor’s Note: This is Part I of Phil’s first-person account of a truly unusual decertification fight that took place at a Brooks Brothers shirt factory located in Garland, North Carolina during the mid-1990s.

Brooks Brothers, the iconic manufacturer of fashionable men’s wear, was purchased in 1988 by British retailer Marks and Spencer. The UK conglomerate already owned a chain of grocery stores in New Jersey.

By Bob Hennelly

On this episode of “What’s Going On?” we hear Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants CWA, and Jimmy Williams Jr., general president of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades tell a packed midtown labor forum last Friday that it is time for the union movement to build on the momentum from Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s seismic win.

By Joe Maniscalco

The worst has happened and you or a neighbor, or loved one needs emergency medical attention to survive. Thankfully, you’re a New Yorker and living in the richest city in the U.S. means emergency medical aid will be rushed to your doorstep in no time, and you’ll make it through okay.

Scratch that.

By Steve Wishnia

The new cleaning contractor at two recently sold Manhattan office buildings is cutting workers’ pay by almost 30% and eliminating their health-insurance coverage, according to the SEIU 32BJ union.

By Joe Maniscalco

The New York City Housing Authority does not yet have the green light it needs to go ahead with plans to demolish the Fulton & Elliott-Chelsea public houses on Manhattan’s west side, but tenants say that hasn’t stopped them from telling residents the buildings are coming down and they have to go.

By Bob Hennelly

The lopsided success of the House discharge petition calling for the release of the Epstein files may be grabbing all the headlines—but there’s a second more obscure discharge petition calling for the restoration of federal workers’ union rights that is also a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump and his efforts to strip one million federal workers of their rights.

By Joe Maniscalco

The New York City Housing Authority’s scorched earth campaign to get rid of Fulton & Elliott-Chelsea [FEC] tenants refusing to leave their homes on Manhattan’ west side entered an even uglier phase this past week, but a Civil Court Judge’s ruling on Friday is giving residents at least some hope.

Work-Bites

Editor’s Note: Striking Starbucks baristas kicking off the “Red Cup Rebellion” in Brooklyn on Nov. 13 had a lot to say about their struggle against CEO Brian Niccol. But they also had plenty to say about the struggle all workers are engaged in, too. Here’s barista Rey Saho on the subject. 

The only reason we have fair work week protections here is because fast food and retail workers in this city organized and fought for it. Throughout history the capitalist class has never given us anything.

By Joe Maniscalco

Starbucks baristas launched their “Red Cup Rebellion” this past week in more than 40 cities across the country promising to escalate the walkout until it becomes the “largest, longest strike in company history.”

By Bob Hennelly

For the second week, hundreds of nurses, elected officials and community members turned out to rally in front of Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn and at Mt. Sinai in Upper Manhattan to protest the private hospitals opting to spend vast sums on CEO pay and AI while at the same time cutting nurse staffing.

By Joe Maniscalco

Outgoing FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker on Thursday downplayed the significance of increasing emergency response times across New York City saying that his department is purposely “elevating” the alarming figures.

By Bob Hennelly

Kai Fritz, elected captain for the first Starbucks store to unionize in Brooklyn, explains why Starbucks Workers United union will be holding a strike rally TODAY at 4 p.m. at the company's 325 Lafayette Ave. Brooklyn location to demand a fair contract. 

By Steve Wishnia

The Trump administration violated furloughed federal workers’ free-speech rights during the shutdown when it changed their automated out-of-office email replies to blame “Democrat Senators,” a federal judge in Washington ruled Nov. 7.

By Bob Hennelly

This will be the first Monday that Mayor Elect Zohran Mamdani gets to set the media agenda for the city he has yet to officially lead. Indeed the whole world will be watching with the kind of fascination and hope it had when a very young President-Elect John Kennedy, the first Roman Catholic to be elected to the office, prepared to assume it.