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‘Gestapo Nation’ - Inside the ICE Arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka

By Bob Hennelly

On Friday, federal immigration police seized Newark Mayor Ras Baraka off of a public street outside Delaney Hall, a controversial private prison, operated by the GEO Corporation, formerly known as Wackenhut Corrections Corporation. This for-profit, publicly traded, multinational employs 18,000 people at over 50 sites here and abroad.  

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Memo to Careerists Everywhere: Working Class People Need You to Get the Hell Outta the Way

By Joe Maniscalco

Two years ago at a Medicare rally for municipal retirees outside the gates of City Hall, IBT Local 831 retiree John Pinard expressed his utter astonishment and disbelief that a labor leader he considered “the most courageous fighter I’ve ever seen in my life” was trying to strip former civil servants like him of their traditional healthcare and push them into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage health insurance plan.

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NYS Senator Drops Healthcare Bill a Year After Standing with Retirees Fighting Medicare Advantage Blitz

By Joe Maniscalco

Last year, State Senator Pete Harckham stood alongside municipal retirees and surviving 9/11 spouses in Albany, urging passage of a statewide bill protecting them from ongoing efforts to strip their traditional Medicare coverage and force them into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage plan.

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NYC Council Runs Scared of Garrido, While Endorsements Anger Retirees

By Joe Maniscalco

District Council 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido continues to scare the bejesus out of the New York City Council.

In 2023, the head of the largest public sector union in town threatened to “withdraw support…money…endorsements—everything” from any New York City Council member blocking his attempts to help Mayor Eric Adams push the city’s 250,000 municipal retirees into a profit-driven Medicare Advantage health insurance plan.

And he hasn’t let up since.

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Watch: NYC Home Care Workers Turned Away from Gov. Hochul’s Office

By Joe Maniscaclo

On Wednesday, March 12, New York City home attendants forced to work round-the-clock shifts, while being paid for roughly half the time, attempted to deliver a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul calling out her role in perpetuating "violence against women." Building security outside the governor's Third Avenue offices refused to accept their letter. This is what the scene looked like:

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NYC Home Care Attendants Protest ‘Unlawful’ Arrests; Challenge CPC’s ‘Powerless’ Claim

By Joe Maniscalco

The Chinese-American Planning Council, the highly influential social services organization at the heart of NYC’s battle to end round-the-clock shifts in the home care industry, may insist those slavish 24-hour shifts are unfair to workers—at least 80 home attendants working for its subsidiary are still doing them.

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Thousands of NY State Health Care Workers Are Still Fighting For Safe Staffing Despite Covid-Era Law

By Steve Wishnia

Contract talks at Kaleida Health, the largest health-care provider in Western New York, began March 4. The almost 8,000 workers involved are seeking “improved staffing levels and added safety protections in the workplace,” according to the two unions representing them, 1199SEIU and Communications Workers of America Local 1168.

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