By Editorial Board Source: The Washington Post New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to spend tens of millions of dollars testing out government-run grocery stores. Some unsolicited advice for the socialist, who is already struggling with a strained budget: City-owned supermarkets won’t work. The conversation explores a range of perspectives [...]
Source: New Jersey 101.5 Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pitching plans to raise New York City's minimum wages as he runs for mayor, despite blocking similar efforts when he was governor. Cuomo announced on Wednesday that if elected mayor he would push to raise the minimum wage to [...]
Source: CBS New York A couple weeks ago, we told you about a pair of new community fridges that opened outside a NYCHA development on the Upper East Side. Among those helping to keep the fridges stocked there and across the city is an organization called Grassroots Grocery. Founder Dan [...]
By Amelia Lucas Source: CNBC Workers at the Starbucks and Amazon Go store in midtown Manhattan filed a petition for a union election on Friday. It’s the first Starbucks cafe that uses Amazon’s cashierless technology to try to unionize under Workers United and just the second of its kind. The store, [...]
By David Jamieson Source: HuffPost Workers at the Trader Joe’s Wine Shop in Manhattan spent the last four months laying the groundwork to unionize their store. A small organizing committee met regularly to discuss strategy around building support to join the United Food and Commercial Workers union, and they planned [...]
By Shirin Ghaffary Source: Recode A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls. But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — were making a special trip to Staten [...]
By Margot Boyer-Dry Source: The New York Times When he moved to a new apartment last fall, Garret MacAllen needed garbage bags, so he placed his first order through Gorillas, a rapid delivery service that had just arrived in New York. Since then, he has grown more reliant on the [...]
By Noam Scheiber Source: The New York Times Employees at a Buffalo-area Starbucks store have voted to form a union, making it the only one of the nearly 9,000 company-owned stores in the United States to be organized and notching an important symbolic victory for labor at a time when [...]
By Alina Selyukh and Tom Dinki Source: NPR Starbucks workers in New York are deciding whether they want to join a union, a move that would be unprecedented at stores owned by the company in the United States. More than 80 baristas and shift supervisors from three stores around Buffalo [...]
By Jeffrey C. Mays Source: The New York Times The New York City Council is on track to pass a groundbreaking package of legislation on Thursday that will set minimum pay and improve working conditions for couriers employed by app-based food delivery services like Grubhub, DoorDash and UberEats. The bills, [...]