[Labor Rights Week\”Know Your Rights” Virtual Events]
Stringer: “I always say that in my office, every week is Labor Rights Week…”My office is as committed to the enforcement of prevailing wages as we are in connecting workers with the pay they are rightfully owed.”
Photo: Office of NYC Comptroller
Make the Road New York
NYC Comptroller Announces Return of $2 Million in Stolen Wages
NYC Budget Deal Falls Far Short of Defunding NYPD
[Defund NYPD]
“This budget deal falls far short of our community’s clear demand to defund the NYPD—it is a trim around the edges, with no measures for the deep, structural change we need.”
Photo: YouTube
COVID-19: NY IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES SAY CUOMO AND DE BLASIO MUST HELP IMMIGRANT VICTIMS
[NY\COVID-19 Pandemic\Immigrants]
Community vigils were held in Corona Plaza and in Brentwood, Long Island to commemorate the community members lost in the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vigils included candles, flowers, photos of those lost…”
Photo: YouTube
NYC COMPTROLLER LAUNCHES PHONE BANK TO CONNECT WORKERS WITH $2.5 MILLION IN UNCLAIMED WAGES
[Stolen Wages\NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer]
32BJ SEIU’s Kyle Bragg: “We strongly support the Comptroller’s proactive efforts to get $2.5 million in stolen wages back in the hands of families that need them, and urge our members to respond to calls from the Comptroller’s office.”
Photo: Susan Watts/Office of the NYC Comptroller
REPORT HIGHLIGHTS NEGATIVE IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON BLACK AND BROWN NEW YORKERS
[Road New York\Hester Street]
“Excluded in the Epicenter,” presents data from a quantitative and qualitative survey of 244 New Yorkers, primarily Latinx immigrants, and finds that one in six has lost a family member to COVID-19.
Photo: YouTube
FAMILIES OF NEW YORKERS KILLED BY POLICE TESTIFY TODAY TO REPEAL POLICE SECRECY LAW AT NYS SENATE
[New York News\Police\50a Law]
New York police have used 50-a to shield abusive officers and departments from public scrutiny by hiding outcomes of disciplinary trials, names of officers involved in police misconduct, body camera footage, and even basic data on use of force incidents. In fact, the public only saw the judge’s decision in the trial of Daniel Pantaleo (the officer responsible for Eric Garner’s killing) because it was leaked to the press.
Photo: Facebook
CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER JOHNSON ANNOUNCES FUNDING TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO ENSURE CORRECT 2020 CENSUS COUNT
[City Hall\Census 2020]
NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson on funding community groups to get a correct 2020 Census count: “A complete count will send a strong message to the Trump Administration that New York is not invisible and not intimidated by the president’s attacks on our diverse communities.”
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